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THE ANCESTRY OF 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



Daughter of George Calvert Morris 
and Elizabeth Kuhn, his wife 



COMPILED BY 



R. WINDER JOHNSON 









1905 

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 
BY FERRIS & LEACH 



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Author 
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PREFATORY NOTE. 

In compiling this work, many sources have been freely 
drawn upon, and much information derived from the labors of 
others in similar fields. Many persons have assisted in con- 
tributing dates, family papers, etc. To all grateful acknowl- 
edgment is made. 

Researches have been made in England, Belgium, Hol- 
land, Germany, the West Indies, and in the United States, 
in order to obtain the results set forth. 

The selection and arrangement of material were under- 
taken by Gilbert Cope, Miss Anne H. Cresson and William 
M. Mervine. 

R. W. J. 

Philadelphia, May, 1905. 



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ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON, 

Fifth child of George Calvert Morris and Elizabeth Kuhn, 

was born at y2y Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 

Sunday evening, January 17, 1864, at a quarter before 11 o'clock. 

Baptized March 8, 1864, 

in St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine Streets, 

Philadelphia, 

by the Rev. George Leeds, D.D. 

Married November 10, 1887, 

in St. Peter's Church, 

to Robert Winder Johnson, 

by the Rev. Thomas F. Davies, D.D. 

Died suddenly August 5, 1903, in a cottage at Saranac Inn, 

Franklin County, New York, 

where she was spending the summer, 

and was buried in 

St. Thomas's Churchyard, Whitemarsh, 

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 



Robert Winder Johnson/ ninth child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) 
Johnson, born Sunday, May 7, 1854, at 3 o'clock, a.m., at 727 Pine Street, Phila- 
delphia; married Rosalie Morris, daughter of George Calvert and Elizabeth 
(Kuhn) Morris, November 10, 1887, in St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine 
Streets, Philadelphia. The Rev. Thomas F. Davies, D.D., officiated. 

Morris Winder Johnson, first child of Robert Winder Johnson and 
Rosalie Morris, was born Friday, July 5, 1889, at 4.30 p.m., in a house on Sum- 
mit Street, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; baptized in St. Peter's Church, Third 
and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, October 16, 1889, by Rev. Thomas F. Davies, 
D.D., Bishop-elect of Michigan ; attended the Chestnut Hill Academy, the De 
Lancey School, Philadelphia, and St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island. 

Lawrence Edward Johnson, second child of Robert Winder Johnson and 
Rosalie Morris, was born at " Lansdowne," Bristol Township, Bucks County, 
Pennsylvania, Saturday, July 9, 1892, at 11.30 a.m.; baptized November 30, 
1892, in St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, by Rev. J. 
Lewis Parks, S.T.D. ; attended the Chestnut Hill Academy. 

Robert Winder Johnson, Junior, third child of Robert Winder Johnson 
and Rosalie Morris, was born at " Lansdowne," Bristol Township, Bucks 
County, Pennsylvania, Sunday, August 19, 1894, at i.io a.m.; baptized De- 
cember 10, 1894, in St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, 
by Rev. J. Lewis Parks, S.T.D. , attended the Chestnut Hill Academy. 

Rosalie Eugenia Johnson, fourth child of Robert Winder Johnson and 
Rosalie Morris, born in a house on Graver's Lane, Chestnut Hill, Springfield 
Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Friday, October 12, 1900, at 
12.35 P-m. ; baptized November 28, 1900, in St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine 
Streets, Philadelphia, by Rev. Richard H. Nelson. 



' R. Winder Johnson attended Mr. Gregory's private school on Market Street, near Eleventh, 
for a number of years, and was there prepared for college. 

He entered the Freshman Class of the University of Pennsylvania, September, 1870 (Class of 1874); 
left the University the spring of 1871, and accompanied his mother to Europe, and there studied and 
travelled until October, 1874. Travelled abroad again in 1875 and 1876. 

Entering the office of Lawrence Johnson & Company, of Philadelphia, a firm doing an import and 
export business and banking, in January, 1877, he was admitted a member of the firm in January, 1879. 

He was elected a member of the Vestry of St. Peter's Church in 1891 ; member of Board of Managers 
of Christ Church Hospital, 1892 ; member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1874, ^nd life member 
in 1877; member of the Rittenhouse Club, 1883; member of the Society of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania, 1897 ; member of the Board of Managers of 
the Children's Hospital, 1897 ; member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, 1897 ; member of the 
Genealogical Society; life member of the Bucks County Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1903; member 
of the Netherlands Society of Philadelphia, 1899. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PACE 

Bailyes ' 

Batkin ^99 

Bosschaert 200 

Brandt 200 

Brown 3 

Calvert 9 

Calvert, Charles 47 

Carrington 49 

Chandcrs 55 

Charle 200 

Chauwin 201 

Cheeus 201 

de Brialmont 202 

de Coninck 201 

de Deckere 203 

de Groot 204 

de la Bistrate 203 

Den wood 57 

Doncker 204 

Evans, Peter 59 

Evans, William 63 

Franks 67 

Frost 71 

Greyns 204 

Grosse 72 

Guest 74 

Hamilton 78 

Hanke 100 

Hartman loi 

Hellemans 204 

Helman 205 

Hudson 102 

Kuhn 116 



PAGE 

La Candele 205 

Lemmens 206 

Levy 134 

Lillingston 135 

Lunden 206 

Lyle 140 

Macquereel 206 

Moens 207 

Moore 144 

Morris 149 

Newton 174 

Peeters 207 

Richardson 175 

Rubens 208 

Ryser 211 

Schilder 211 

Schrack 184 

Schrynmaeckers 212 

Shippen 186 

Stier 196 

Tilghman 216 

Till 218 

van den Cruyce 212 

van den Graef 213 

van der Borcht 213 

van Helen 214 

van Nierop 214 

van Tetz 214 

van Wyck 215 

Vincque 215 

Walewyns 215 

Watson 231 

Wilhng 240 



The Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson 



BAILYES. 

Generation IX. 

William Bailles,^ married January 26, 1612, Alice Sommerland, as is 
shown by the register of the parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Astonjuxta, 
Birmingham, England, and had at least the following children : 

1. JoANE Bailles,, baptized June 15. 1617. 

2. Margerie Bailles, baptized February 27, 1619. 

3. WILLIAM BAILLES, baptized December 15, 1622; married Alice (or Eliza- 

beth) Chanders. 

4. Alice Bailees, baptized January 14, 1626. 

5. Ann Bailees, baptized May 17. 1629. 

VIII. 

William Bailyes, son of William and Alice, married Alice (or Elizabeth) 
Chanders, daughter of Thomas Chanders, and resided at Birmingham, Eng- 
land. He became a Quaker, and was perhaps the same William Bayley at 
whose house in Warwickshire a meeting was broken up by a mob in 1659. His 
children appear to have written the name Baylis. 

Children of William Bailyes and Alice (or Elizabeth) Chanders : 

1. William Baylis, died young. 

2. John Baylis, of Birmingham, County Warwick, married 12 mo. 20, 1671. 

Sarah Dyke, of London, at Peel Street Meeting, London. They had at 
least four children, John, Samuel, Hannah and Mary. 

3. Mary Baylis, married Barnet Parks, of Dudley, surgeon; no issue. 

4. Sarah Baylis, married John Guest and had a son who died young. 

5. ALICE BAYLIS. died 1705: married George Guest. 

6. Elizabeth Baylis (also spelled Bailyes), of Scotch Yard, near Cannon Street, 

London, married 4 mo. 17, 1673, William Hard, of Kingston, at Grace 
Church Street Meeting. They emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1682. She 
died in her 93d year in Philadelphia. 

7. Rebecca Baylis, married Thomas Rose (or Ross), of Birmingham: had a son, 

Thomas Rose, and others who died young. 

8. Phebe Baylis, married Constantine Young, of Leominster, and had a son Peter. 

VII. Alice Baylis, married George Guest. 
VI. Pheee Guest, married Anthony Morris. 
V. Anthony Morris, married Elizabeth Hudson. 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 

III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



iThe name is spelled Bailles, Bailyes and Baylis in the records. 
1 



T f [ E A X C E S T R Y OF 



BAT KIN. 
Generation XL 

See Sticr Record. 

BOSSCHAERT. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Jvccord. 

BRANDT. 

Generation XIl. 

See Stier Record. 




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ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



BROWN. 
Generation IX. 

John Brown ^ was a large landowner in Northampton County, Virginia, 
a prosperous man and highly respected in the colony. He is mentioned in 
Brown's " Genesis of the United States '" as being a contributor to the Vir- 
ginia Company and as a member of the Tailors' Guild of London, in his 
will he refers to his twelve hundred and sixty-two acres of land at the seaside 
as being a part of his Original Dividend. 

He received a patent for two hundred acres of land June 3, 1642, at Nassa- 
wadox Creek, and his wife, Ursula Brown, was in the list of Head Rights. 
(See Land Records at Richmond, Virginia.) He also received the following cer- 
tificates for land: One hundred and fifty acres, November 11, 1645; fifty acres, 
September 15, 1647; six hundred and fifty acres, July 4, 1652, and another cer- 
tificate April 28, 1649, all of which are recorded in the third and fourth volumes 
of the Northampton County Records. 

In a deposition made April 28, 1647, '"^^ stated that his home was at Nas- 
sawattocks (now called Nassawadox) Creek. This land seems to have been 
other than his seaside estate, for by his will twelve hundred and sixty-two acres 
of land at the " seaboard side " were bec[ueathed to his eldest son John. His 
home place, of six hundred acres, was to be sold for the benefit of his son 
Thomas, if the overseers of his will thought best. It appears to have been sold 
to Levin Denwood, who reconveyed it to Thomas Brown February 21, 1670. 
(Records of Accomac County, vol. 1664-1670, p. 190.) 

To his four younger children he made a deed of gift of three sheep each, 
and also a mare colt to Mary, and if Mary died before reaching fourteen years 
of age, then said colt was to be Sarah's, etc. (See vol. vii., p. 3, 24th May, 1655, 
for record.) The children were all under fourteen years of age at the making of 
the will. John and Stephen Brown disappear from Northampton County, and 
Thomas came into possession of the twelve hundred and sixty-two acres of 
land at the seaside, but no deed appears of record to show that it was pur- 
chased by him. The inference is that John died without issue, and Thomas 
inherited the land as eldest brother and heir at law. There is no tradition in 
the family that Thomas Brown had any brother who left issue, but, as there 
are Browns living both in Somerset Countv, Marvland. and in Accomac, it is 
possible that one or both the others lived and had cliildren. 

A short time before his death, John Brown made an exchange of land^ 
with Captain William Smart for severol thousands of acres in Lancaster County, 



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iThe name of a John Rrown appears for the first time in records of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 
on May 12th, 1633. This is possibly the same person mentioned in Hotten's List of Immigrants, February 16, 
1623, as being at Hog Island. A John Browne was also a member of the House of Burgesses which assem- 
bled October 16, 1629, when he and Cheney Boyse represented Shirley Hundred Island. There has been 
nothing found to connect John Brown, of Northampton County, with the persons mentioned in this foot- 
note ; they may be the same. 



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\ irginia, uii the Rappahannock River, IniL the transfer was not completed, 
for Ursula Brown, as executrix, petitioned Captain Smart, through the Court, 
to 1)6 released from fulfilling the contract. This he consented to do, and re- 
funded the 5,000 pounds of tobacco, " earnest money," which Brown had paid 
t.. hind the bargain, jolin Brown's will was dated 26th August, 1654, and 
proved March 15, 1655. (Vol. v., p. 86, Northampton County Records.) 

Children of John and Ursula T'rown : 

1. John Brown. 

2. THOMAS BROWN, died 1705: married Susanna Denwood. 

3. Stephen Brown. 

4. Mary Brown. 

5. Sarah Brown. 

6. Elizabeth Brown. 

VIIL 

Thomas Brown, son of John and Ursula, married Susanna Denwood, 
daughter of Levin and Mary Denwood. " Thomas Brown and his wife 
Susanna, though members of that proscribed sect called the Quakers, are yet 
persons of such well-known probity and integrity that their affirmation is re- 
ceived instead of the usual oath " (vol. xiii., p. 91, March 30, 1691, Northamp- 
ton County Records). He was " commissioned by William Pcnn to establish 
Quaker churches on the Peninsula." - (See " Churches and Families of Vir- 
ginia." by Bishop William Meade, vol. i., p. 255.) He succeeded to the lands 
of his father at Nassawadox and at the seashore. The following is a copy of 
his will : 

In The Name of God Amen, I Thomas Brown of Nortlianipton County in Virg: 
being sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect memory and understanding, blessed 
be God, doc make and ordaine this my T.ast Will and Testam*^ in manner and form fol- 
lowing. 

Imp'"^ I surrender my soul into the hands of God y* gave it me, hopeing in and through 
y*" meritts of my Saviour Christ Jesus for y^ full fruition of his pres*^ forever hereafter. 
2d'y I Give and bequeath unto my Loving Wife Susanna my plantation whereon I now 
Live, containing bj' Lstimation six hundred acres withall appurtenances thereunto be- 
longing, dureing her natural Life, I Likewise give unto my Loving wife my plantation 
on y'' Sea Side, by Estimation one thousand, two hundred and sixty two acres, w*'' all 
appurtenances thereunto belonging, during her widowhood, but if she marry then only 
Iier part according to Law; I also give her during her natural Life six negros (viz) 
Robin, Cugee. Brady, Betty, Tony and Hannah, and if Cugee and Hannah doe hare any 
more children during y*-' Life of my s'' wife. Then she to have the disposing of them 
among her grandchildren as she thinks fit. My will is that my s'' wife have and Enjoy 
all my Estate not hereafter disposed of, of what nature or property soever during her 
widowhood, but if she marry my will is y' she have apart taken out of my Estate answer- 
able to any of my children's part (negroes only Excepted) and y"^ remaining part to be 
equally divided between herself and her four children, and if they cannot agree in y*^ 



*This presents a somewhat erroneous view of Quaker church polity, as neither William Penn nor any 
other individual had authority to estabHsh churches. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



division, I due hereby qiialifie three or four of their honest neibonrs by consent chosen 
to make division of y*^ same. 

3d'y I Give unto my Daughter Elizabeth, after my wife's decease, & to her heirs for- 
ever, y" plantation whereon 1 now live, and my will is y' my s'^ Daughter have free pas- 
turage in y^ winter season for ten cows within y*^ Hammock fence dureing her Natural 
Life, she allowing five days work of an able hand yearly to repair y<^ said fence. I Give 
unto my Grandson Zerobable Preeson my seal ring. 

41-8 I give unto my Daughter Sarah and to her heirs forever, six hundred and thirty one 
acres of Land at y*^ sea side, being parcell of a tract lying there, to be Laid out as follows 
my will is y*^ a straight Line be run through y'^ s'l Land at y^ Sea side beginning at a 
small pine tree standing on y<^ ISl ether part of y'-' s'^ Land except on y'' south side of y'' 
path y* Leads to Robins with a pine Shingle hanging thereon marked thus B X from 
thence with a straight Line to a white oake standing on y*-' marsh side whereon hangeth 
another shingle marked as aiores'^, and soe down y*^ Gutt whereunto y^ hammock fence 
doth end but not to go over y*^ s'' Gutt my meaning is that I give to my s'^ Daughter 
Sarah and her heirs forever y^ north part of y*^ s^^ Land containing 631 acres as afores'i 
after my wife's right is Determined in y*" Same [premisses?]. 

5''^ I give unto my said Daughter Sarah my negro Girl Robi I give unto my Daughter 
Anne ^ all my Land at y** Sea Side not already disposed of, that is to say all the Land 
on the South side of y^ Line before menconed Licluding both Hammocks by Estimation 
six hundred thirty one acres to her and her heirs of her body forever and failing such 
heirs to goe to y^ heirs of my Daughter Elizabeth and their heirs forever. I Likewise 
Give unto my Daughter Anne my Negroe Mary Frank his wife Matt his two sons Ste- 
phen and Oliver and my negroe Girle Mary at y" Sea Side, I also give her twelve Cowes 
& Calves or other cattle equivelant, and for what household goods my children have had 
my will is my Daughter Anne's part be made answerable to y^ full out of my estate, and 
if any of her own Goods have been made use of in y^ house my will is they be made good 
out of my Estate, my will is further y* my Daughter Anne have during her Single Life 
ys use of my brandy Still with other conveniences, as houseroom fireing & y^ like. 
&y I Give unto my Daughter Mary In consideration that I give her no Land my two 
negro boys Sampson & Will as also those six negroes Given to my wife after her dec^ I 
give unto my s'^ Daughter. 

Lastly I nominate and appoint my Loving Wife & my four Daughters afores'^' joint 
Executors of this my Last Will and Testam* revoking all other former wills by me made, 
or pretend*' to be made owning this whose date is y^ second day of November, 1704, and 
noe other to he my last will, and doe sign seal and publish and declare this as my said 
Last Will Thomas Brown 

ye Seal [X] 
In presence of 

Robert Sam^^ French. 
Andrew Hamilton. 

North Co., May y'' 29''^ 1705. The foregoing Will of Mr. Tho: Brown was y^ above 
Date present" to Court of y*^ above s'' County by Mrs. Susanna Brown Mrs. Eliz: Pree- 
son, Mrs. Sarah Upshur, Mrs. Anne Preeson, Mrs. Mary Littleton, joynt Ex''^ of y^ s'J 



3 Anne Brown, daughter of Thomas and Susanna, was first married to Joseph Preeson, a brother, 
tradition says, of Thomas Preeson. It is supposed they had a daughter Susanna, for in 1724 one Susanna 
Preeson married Daniel Godwin and apparently left issue who removed to Dorchester County, Maryland, 
about 1746, but proof is wanting that she was the daughter of Joseph and Anne. Tradition states, however, 
that Andrew Hamilton, who became the second husband of Anne (Brown) Preeson, was a Scotchman who 
taught a classical school in Accomac, near Joseph Preeson's residence ; that among his scholars was one or 
more of Mr. Preeson's children, and that after Mr. Preeson's death, Mr. Hamilton managed Mrs. Preeson's 



THE A XCESTR Y O F 



Brown, & des'^' probate on might be made tliercof, w'^'' accordingly was done by y'' cor- 
porall oaths of Mr. Andrew HamiUun & Sam" l-'rench y^ court allowing of y^' same to be 
authentic probate uponn y*^ motion of y'' s'' Ex: y'-' s" Will is ordered to be put uponn 

Record. 

Tes^ John Custis Cr. Cur.-* 

Thomas Brown signed his name as witness to several deeds or wills on 
record at Accomac and wrote tlie name I'.rowne, l)ul the signature to his 
will omits the final e. 

Children of Thomas Brown and Susanna Denwood : 

1. Elizabeth Brown, married Thomas Preeson, merchant, who had formerly been 

engaged in mercantile business in Liverpool, England. She survived 
him and made her will June 12, 1733. (See Northampton County 
Records.) 

Children: 
i. Zorobabel Preeson, married Margaret, daughter of Colonel 

William Waters, and had a son Thomas who married 

Esther Cable, and left issue. 
ii. Thomas Preeson; died young, 
iii. Brown Preeson; descendants, if any, unknown, 
iv. Joseph Preeson. 
V. Susanna Preeson, married Colonel Peter Bowdoin and had a 

son, Preeson Bowdoin, who married Sarah, daughter of 

Littleton Eyre. 
vi. Hannah Preeson; died unmarried. 
vii. Sarah Preeson; apparently married James Gibson, and had a 

son, John Gibson, who is mentioned in the will of his 

grandmother. 

2. Sarah Brown, married Arthur Upshur, of Upshur's Neck. 

Children: 

i. Arthur Upshur; died without issue, 
ii. Abel Upshur, married Rachel Revell and left issue. 
iii. Thomas Upshur, married Sarah Bell and left two sons, 

Thomas and Brown, 
iv. Susanna Upshur, married (i) Major John Teackle; (2) 
Colonel Edmund Scarborough. 



business affairs for her and finally m.arried her. The discovery of the marriage license liond among the 
records of Northampton County shows that this second marriage occurred March 6, 1706. 

Andrew and Anne Hamilton were Hving in Cecil County, Maryland, in 1712, but removed not long 
after to Philadelphia. In 1721 they conveyed the six hundred and thirty-one acres of land at the seaside, 
which she inherited from her father, to her nephew, Zorobabel Preeson, whose son, Thomas Preeson, sold 
it to Thomas Dalby. It must be remembered that Thomas Brown devised this land to his daughter Anne 
and her heirs forever, and in case of the failure of heirs it was to go to the heirs of her sister Elizabeth. 
It was floublless for the purpose of amending the title that James Hamilton, of Philadelphia, " son and heir 
of Andrew and Ann Hamilton, formerly of Northampton County, Virginia," executed a deed for the same 
property to Thomas Dalby, July 8, 1755. 

This estate is now known as " The Hammocks " and " Woodstock," it having been divided into two 
farms, both of which are owned by the same person. The other tract, devised to her sister Sarah, is called 
" Brownsville," and is owned by her lineal descendants, having never been sold. 

* Northampton County Wills, vol. xiv., p. 240. 



ROSALIE MORRIS TOHNSON 



V. Abigail Upshur, married Waters. 

vi. Elizabeth Upshur, married Andrew Finney, 
vii. Anne Upshur, married Major John Custis, of Deep Creek, and 
left issue. 

3. ANNE BROWN, married (i) Joseph Preeson; (2) March 6, 1706, Andrew 

Hamilton. 

4. Mary Brown, married (i) Southey Littleton, of Nandua; (2) Hancock Custis. 



Child of first marriage: 
i. Leah Littleton, married Colonel John Gale, of Maryland. 

Children of second marriage: 

ii. John Custis, married Ann Kendall, 
iii. Levin Custis, died without issue, 
iv. Theophilus Custis, died without issue. 
V. Southey Custis, died without issue. 
vi. Cassandra Custis. 



WILL OF SUSANNA BROWN. 

I Susanna Browne of Northampton County widow being weak and sick of Body 
but of perfect memory blessed be God do make my last will and Testament in manner 
following 

Imp"" I give unto Susanna Teagle the negro girl named Betty now in her possesion. 

Item - I give unto Leah Littleton the negro girl named Bridget now in possesion of her 

father Custis. 

Item - 1 give unto Margeret Hamilton y" negro girl named Ariadne now in the possion 

of her father Hamilton. 

Item - I give unto Cassandra Custis the negro boy named Jacob. 

Item I give unto Susanna Preeson the negro girl named Tabitha. 

Item I give unto Browne Preeson the negro boy named Antony. 

Item I give unto Abigail Upsher y^ negro girl named Comfort. 

Item I give unto Andrew Hamilton the younger ten pound in money which I now have 

delivered to his father for his use. 

Item I constitute and appoint Elizabeth Preeson wife of Thomas Preeson Executrix of 

this my Last will and Testament Revoking all other wills by me heretofore made in 

Witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and Seal this fourth day of February 1714 

her 
Su.sANNA S B Browne [seal] 
mark 
Sign'd Sealed and Published by 
Susanna Browne as her last will 
and Testament In Presence of 
Edw'd Mifflin 
Arthur Upshur 
Northampton County of May Court y"^ 19*^'' day 1719 

Then the s** Last will and Testament of Susanna Browne dec'' was presented in 
Court by her Executrix Elizabeth Preeson wife of Thomas Preeson who gave her Test: 



8 



T IT E A X C E S T R Y O E 



thereunto and being proved by the Testation of Edward Alil'llin he being a Quaker a 
witness thereto is admitted to record and on the motion of the s^ Elizabeth Preeson wife 
of Thomas Preeson the Executrix She obtaining a probate thereof in die form. 
Recorded, Test. Robert Howson C. Co Northampton. 



VII. Anne (Brown) Preeson, married Andrew Hamilton. 
VI. Andrew Hamilton, married Mary Till. 
V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married PIartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




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ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



CALVERT. 
Generation XI. 

1. Leonard Calvert, son of John Calvert, was living in the lime of Eliza- 
beth in or near the town of Danby Wiske, in the valley of the Swale, Yorkshire. 
He was a country gentleman, apparently in easy circumstances, who owned 
land and raised cattle, — a fact which at a later time gave an enemy of George 
Calvert an opportunity to sneer at him as " the son of a grazier." He married 
Alicia Crossland, a lady of gentle birth, and acquired the estate of Kiplin, in 
the same valley, in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign. 

X. 

2. George Calvert, son of Leonard, was born about the year 1580, on 
the estate of Kiplin, or in the village of that name. At the early age of four- 
teen he entered Trinity College, Oxford, as a commoner, and took his bachelor's 
degree in 1597. His college studies ended, he traveled on the continent, where 
it is probable he made his first acquaintance with Sir Robert Cecil, afterward 
his patron and the founder of his fortunes, who had been sent by Elizabeth on 
an embassy to the court of France, to knit more closely the bonds of alliance 
with Henry IV. 

On Elizabeth's death, in 1603, Cecil was continued by King James in the 
office of Secretary of State, and we already find Calvert among his friends. To 
this friendship it is probably due that Calvert was associated with Cecil in the 
management of certain estates which had been settled on the queen. In the 
same year he had a seat in James' first Parliament as a member for the Cornish 
borough of Bossiney. 

A year or so later he married his first wife, Anne, the daughter of John 
Mynne, Esquire, of Hertingfordbury, l)y Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Sir 
Thomas Wroth, of Durance, in Enfield, Middlesex, Knight. She died August 
14, 1613. John Mynne, her father, died May 20, 1581.^ 

In 1605 Calvert received his master's degree at Oxford. Soon after leav- 
ing the university, he became Cecil's private secretary, and was appointed by 
the king clerk of the crown and of assize in County Clare, Ireland, an office of 
importance, resembling that of an attorney-general. 

The death of Cecil in 1612, although it deprived Calvert of an attached 



1 The record of the earlier generations of the Calvert family has been largely quoted from William 
Hand Browne's " George and Cecilius Calvert," etc. (New York, 1890). See also, " The Lords Baltimore," 
by John G. Morris, D.D. (Baltimore, 1874); ".Sir George Calvert, Baron of Baltimore," by Lewis W. 
Wilhelm, A.B. (Baltimore, 1884) ; "The Calvert Papers " printed by the Historical Society of Maryland ; 
"The Lords Baltimore and the Maryland Palatinate," by C. C. Hall, LL.B., etc. (Baltimore, 1902). An 
article entitled, " Memoirs of the Baltimore Familv," printed in the London Magazine, June, 1768, a trans- 
cript of which is owned by John Calvert, Esq., of Philadelphia, and loaned for the purpose, has also been 
freely used in the compilation. 

Note. — The Calvert sketch differs in its arrangement from the others in this volume for the reason 
that here all the families are carried down (when the information was at hand), instead of only the direct line. 



lO 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



and ijoucrliil friend, did nul lessen the royal lavur lo liini. In 1613 he was ap- 
pointed clerk to the i'rivy Council, and was sent on a mission to Ireland to 
report on the success of James' new policy of bringing the Irish into conformity 
with the religion and obedience to the law of England. 

Calvert was sent on a mission to the French court in 1610, on the occa- 
sion of the accession of Louis XIll. i le assisted James in his diatribe against 
t!ie Dutch theologian Vorstius, whose Arminian heresies the king, in his ca- 
pacity of Defender of the Faith, felt bound to confute. 

In 1 61 7 Calvert received the order of knighthood. On the dismissal of 
Sir Thomas Lake in 1619 he was raised to the high office of Principal Secretary 
of State. In 1620 he was made one of the commissioners for the olifice of treas- 
urer; he received a pension of £1,000 and a subsidy on all raw silk imported. 

The Parliament of 1621, in which Calvert sat as a member from Yorkshire, 
met amid great excitement. His seat was obtained through Wentworth's in- 
llucnce (Wentworth himself being his colleague). Calvert was one of the 
minority which supported the Spanish policy of the court. The French am- 
bassador, 'iillieres, writing at this time, states that the control of all public 
affairs really rested in Buckingham and Calvert. The latter he describes as 
" an honorable, sensible, well-minded man, courteous toward strangers, full of 
respect toward ambassadors, zealously intent upon the welfare of England ; but 
by reason of all these good qualities, entirely without consideration or import- 
ance." If he means that the secretary was a political nonentity, the records 
of Parliament prove the contrary. 

The king, on February 18, 1621, granted him a manor of 2,300 acres in 
County Longford, Ireland. These lands were held on condition that all set- 
tlers upon them should take the oath of supremacy and " be conformable in 
point of religion." When Calvert, four years later, made profession of the 
Roman Catholic faith, he surrendered his patent and received it back with the 
religious clause omitted. The Longford estates were then erected into the 
manor of Baltimore, from which he took his baronial title. 

In the next year Calvert had the misfortune to lose his wife, to whom he 
was tenderly attached, who died August 8, 1622, leaving a family of ten chil- 
dren, the eldest of whom, Cecilius, was only about sixteen years old. Two 
other sons, Leonard and George, afterward had a share in the foundation of 
Maryland, and both died in the new world; Anne, the eldest daughter, married 
William Peaseley; Grace, the fourth daughter, married Sir Robert Talbot, a 
kinsman of the earl of Tyrconncl ; and of the others, Francis, Henry, Dorothy, 
Elizabeth and Helen, little more than their names is known. An eleventh child, 
John, died in infancy. In memory of this beloved wife Calvert erected a monu- 
ment, which is still standing, in the parish church of Hertingfordbury, Hert- 
fordshire. 

In 1624 Calvert again had a scat in Parliament, not for his native county, 
but for Oxford. He later avowed to the king that he had become a convert to 
the faith of Rome, and asked to be allowed to resign his secretarvship and 
retire to private life. The king, however, retained him in the Privy Council, 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON ii 

and on February i6, 1625, elevated him to the Irish peerage as Baron Balti- 
more of Baltimore, in the County of Longford. In the original patent (in the 
possession of the Maryland Historical Society -) the reasons for his elevation 
are set forth as follows : 

We therefore, nearly considering in the person of Our well-beloved and entirely 
faithful Councillor, George Calvert, Knight, gravity of manners, singular gifts of mind, 
candour, integrity, and prudence, as well as benignity and urbanity toward all men, and 
also reflecting in Our mind with iiow great fidelity, diligence, and alacrity he has served 
Us, both in Our kingdom of Ireland, whither, not long ago, he was specially sent upon 
Our very weighty and most important business there, as also in this Our Kingdom of 
England, throughout many years, but especially since he was advanced near Our person 
to the place and honour of a Councillor and Our principal Secretary; and willing that 
some singular mark of Our royal favour may remain unto the aforesaid George and unto 
his posterity forever, by which not only he, but others also may perceive how highly We 
prize the fidelity and obedience of the said George, and how much We desire to reward 
his virtues and merits. We have decreed him to be inscribed among the number of the 
peers of Our Kingdom of Ireland: KNOW YE THEREFORE that We, of Our especial 
grace, and of Our sure knowledge and mere motion, have exalted, preferred, and created 
the aforesaid George Calvert, Knight, unto the estate, degree, dignity, and honour of 
Baron Baltimore of Baltimore, within Our Kingdom of Ireland. 

A few weeks after the issue of this patent James I. died, but his 
successor, Charles I., did not withdraw his tavor from the late secretary. On 
the contrary, he wished to retain him in the council, offering to dispense with 
the oath of supremacy in his case ; but Baltimore was firm in his resolution to 
retire finally from official life. 

He now had leisure to turn his attention to his affairs in the new world. 
He had long taken much interest in the colonizing schemes which were so rife 
at the time, and had associated himself with several. As early as 1609 he had 
been a member of the second Mrginia Company, and was also one of the pro- 
visional council for the management of the affairs of that colony after the 
revocation of the charter, and one of the eighteen councillors of the New Eng- 
land Company in 1622. 

Several attempts had been made to settle Newfoundland, and at various 
times the whole or part of the island had been granted to Sir Humphrey 
Gilbert, Sir Francis Bacon, and others; but the attempts at colonization had 
gone no further than the establishment of a fishing station. Calvert, in 1620, 
purchased a plantation on the island from Sir William Vaughan, which he 
named Avalon,^ from the consecrated spot to which pious legend referred the 
introduction of Christianity into Britain. He sent out a number of colonists 
with proper implements and supplies, and placed his plantation in charge of a 
Captain Wynne. In 1622 he applied for a patent, and received a grant of the 
whole island of Newfoundland; this, however, was superseded by a re-grant 
in March, 1623, conveying to him the southeastern peninsula, which was erected 



2 Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 41. 

' It is not certain whetlier this name was given by Baltimore or one of the earlier adventurers. His 
settlement was usually called Ferryland, and from this his letters are dated. 



12 T H E A X C E S T R Y O F 

iiilu I Ik- province ul Avalun by a royal charter issued April 7. By this char- 
ter Calvert was given a i)alatinate or quasi-royal authority over the province, 
which was held /;/ capitc, by knight's service, with the condition of giving the 
kiuL'' or his successors a white horse whenever he or they should visit those 
parts. 

Previous to his contemplated visit to Newfoundland, we find him writing 
lo W'entvvorlh in 1627: "I am . . . bound for a long journey, to a place 
which 1 have had a long desire to visit, and have now the opportunity and leave 
to do it. It is Newfoundland 1 mean, which it imports me, more than in curi- 
osity only, to see, for I must either go and settle the matter in better order, or 
give it over and lose all the charge I have been at hitherto for other men to 
build their fortunes upon. And I had rather be esteemed a fool by some for the 
hazard of one month's journey than to prove myself one certainly for six years 
by past if the business be now lost for the want of a little pains and care." So, 
in June of this year, he visited Avalon in person, arriving at the end of July. 
Returning after a short time, he spent the w'inter in England preparing '•for 
his second visit, which he made in the following summer, bringing with him 
Lady Baltimore, his second wife, and all his family except his eldest son, Ce- 
cilius, with about forty colonists, so that the number of souls in the whole col- 
ony was raised to about one hundred. 

The dangers or the discomforts of life at Avalon seem to have been too 
much for Lady Baltimore, for she sailed in 1628 to Virginia, remaining for some 
time at Jamestown, as we know from a letter of Baltimore's in which he asks 
letters from the Privy Council to the governor of Virginia, instructing him to 
facilitate Lady Baltimore's return to England. In the same letter he expresses 
a desire for a grant of land in Virginia, as the king had given him leave to 
choose any unoccupied part. 

Baltimore himself arrived at Jamestown in October, 1629. The Virginians 
either suspected or had information of his plans, and he was but coldly received 
by the authorities. It was within the bounds of possibility, as well as of law% 
that the king might give him a charter for the wdiole of Virginia. Knowing 
his religious faith, they tendered him the oath of supremacy, which as a con- 
scientious Catholic he could not take, though he offered to take a modified form 
of it. To this they would not agree ; so he determined to depart. He 
left his wife and family in Jamestown, which would seem to indicate 
that he expected soon to return. He discovered, how^ever, after his arrival in 
England, that many hindrances and delays were to be looked for before receiv- 
ing his grant ; so Lady Baltimore and his famil\ followed him later in the 
Sainte Claude, and had a narrow escape, the ship being wrecked ofT the Eng- 
lish coast. All on board escaped with their lives, but Baltimore's goods were 
lost. 

At length the king yielded to his wishes and granted him a tract of land 
between the James and Passamagnus (Chowan) Rivers. But, as this grant was 
strongly opposed by some of the dissolved Virginia company, on the pretext 
that they were themselves about to settle colonists on that region for the pur- 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 13 

pose of raising sugar, Baltimore asked the king to reconsider the matter. The 
referees, taking also into consideration the fact that the Dutch were establish- 
ing themselves between \'irginia and the New England settlements, and that 
it would be advisable to push English colonization further northward, recom- 
mended a grant of lands lying considerably to the north of the Virginia colony. 
Baltimore therefore surrendered his grant of Carolana, as it was called, and 
received in its stead a grant of land on both sides of the Chesapeake Bay, in- 
cluding the whole eastern peninsula, and running down to the Potomac on the 
western side, no part of which territory, as was then thought, had been granted 
by Virginia. 

Baltimore's health had long been declining, and, on April 15, 1632, before 
his patent for Maryland had passed the great seal, he died. 

Though the colony which he founded was almost a failure, and he did not 
live to see the beginnings of that colony which succeeded, George Calvert has 
a right to be ranked among the makers of America. 

A fine portrait of George Calvert, by Mytens, Court painter of James I., is 
in the possession of the present Earl of Verulam.* The Church of St. Dunstan, 
Fleet Street, London, where Baltimore was buried, has since been destroyed 
by fire. 

The "Calvert Papers" (vol. i.. page 38) gives the following: 

EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE ARMS OF SIR GEORGE CALVERT 

To All And Singvlar As well Nobles, and gentles as others to whom theis presents 
shall come Sir Richard St. George Knight Norroy Kinge of Arms of the North parts of 
the Rcalme of England from the Riuer of Trent Northward send greetinge. Forasmuch 
as auntienth' from the beginninge the virtuous and worthy actes of excellent persons haue 
bene commended to the World, with sundry monuments and Remembraunces of their 
good deserts amongest which the cheifest and most usuall haue bene the bearinge of 
Signes and tokens in Sheilds. called .A.rmes which are evident demonstracons and Tes- 
timonyes of proues & valour dyuerslv distributed accordinge to the qualitie and deserts 
of the persons merrittinge the same, which order as it was prudently deuised to stirr vp 
and enflame the harts of men to the Imitacon of Virtue, even soe hath the same bene, and 
yet is contynued to the intent that such as haue done Commendable Service to their Prince 
and Countrey either in warre or in peace, may therefore receiue due honor in their owne 
Lyues and also dcriue and contynue the same successiuely to their posterity for cuer. 
Amongest which nomber for that I fynd the right Honourablre Sir George Caluert Knight 
one of his Maiesties principall Secretaryes of State and his auncestors to haue recided 
in the North parties of this Kingdome. and not only to haue lined in the Ranks and 
reputacon of gent: and bene bearers of such badges and Ensigncs of honor amongest 
vs, but further haue scene an exact collection made by Mr. Richard Verstegan an An- 
tiquarie in Antwarpe sent ouer this last of March 1622, by which it appeareth that the 
said Sir George is descended of a Noble and auntient familie of that Surname in the 
Earldome of fianders where they have lined long in great Honor, and haue had great 
possessions, their principall and auntient Seate being at Warvickoe in the said Province, 
And that in theis later tymes two brethren of that surname vid: Jaques Calvert Lord of 
Seuere two leagues from Gaunt remayncd in the Netherland bro}'les on the side of the 



■* " A fine copy of this portrait was presented to the State of Maryland by the late John W. Garrett, 
Esq., and is now at the State-house at Annapolis." 



14 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Kinge of Spayne and hath a sonne who at this present is in honourable place and office 
in the Parliament Courte at Macklyn, And Leuinus Caluort the other brother tooke parte 
with the States of Holland and was by them ymployed as their Agent with Henry the 
fourth late Kinge of Frainicc, which leuinus Caluert left a sonne in France whom the 
foresaid Kinge entertayncd as a gentleman of his bed chamber. And further it is teste- 
ficd by the said Mr. Verstegan that the proper Arnies belonging to the^Familie of the 
Caluerts is. or, three martlctts Sables with this Creast vizt the vpper parte or halues of 
two Launces the bandroll of the first Sables and the second, or. Nowe forasmuch as I 
have been required by the said Sir George Caluert Knight to make a true declaracon 
of what I haue scene conccriiinge the worthynes of his aunccstors that it maye remayne 
to posterity from whence they orriginally descended as also that at this instant their is 
three of that Surname and lyniage lyvinge in three seuerall countryes beinge all men of 
great emenency and honourable ymployment in the State where they line, which other- 
waycs by a generall neclect might in future tyme be forgotten and the honor of their 
auncestors buried in obliuion. And withall for a further manifestacon and memoriall of 
the familie from whence he is descended. The said Sir George Caluert is likewise desir- 
ous to add some parte of thc^se honourable badges and ensignes of honor which descend 
vpon him from his auncestors their to those which he and his predecessors haue formerly 
borne here since their comminge into England. The premisses considered I the said Nor- 
roy Kinge of Armes haue thought fitt not only to publishe by the declaracon what hath 
come to my hands and Knowledge concerninge the honor of this worthy familie but also 
to add to the Coate of Armes which they haue borne here in England beinge paley of 
Sixe peices, or and Sables a bend counterchangcd this Creast ensuinge Vizt: the vpper 
parte of two halfe Launces or, with bandrolls there to appendinge the one or the other 
Sables standinge in a Ducall Crowne gules as more playnly appeareth depicted in the 
margent and is the auntient Creast descended vnto him from his auncestors, The which 
Coate and Creast I the said Norroy Kinge of Armes doe ratifie, approue and confirme 
vnto the said Sir George Caluert Knight and the yssue of his body foreuer bearinge their 
due and lawfull dififerences accordinge to the lawe of Armes in that case prouided. In 
witnes whereof I the said Sir Richard St. George Knight Norroy Kinge of Armes haue 
hereto put my hand and Scale of my office this third Daye of December 1622. In the 
yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord James by the grace of God Kinge of Eng- 
land France, and Ireland Defender of the fayth &c. the Twentith, And of Scotland the 
fifyftie and sixe. 

Rd: St. George Norroy. 



WILL OF SIR GEORGE CALVERT, LORD BALTIMORE. 1632. 

In The Name Of God Amen I Sir George Caluert Knight Lord Baltimore being 
sicke of bodie but well in minde doe hereby declare my last will, and Testament to be 
ffirst I doe bequeath my soule to God, and my bodie to the ground ITEM I doe 
bequeath my lands, goods anfl Chattells of what nature soeuer to my eldest sonne Cicill 
Caluert cither in England, or Ireland, and elsewhere ITEM I doc giue, and bequeath to 
my daughter Jlellen Caluert the some of Twelue hundred pounds to be paied vnto hir out 
of the monyes remayninge in the hands of my Lord Cottington, and S'' William Ashton 
flfeoffees for those monies to the vse of my younger Children w'^^ some I doe desire to 
be paied vnto hir within sixe monethcs next after my death, AND I doe bequeath the 
remainder of those monies in the ffeofTees hands aforemenconed (this said porcon being 
deducted) to be equally deuided amongest my three younger sonnes viz*^. Leonard, 
George, and Henry Cajuert to be paied vnto them att thcire seuerall ages of One, and 

Twenty respectiuely. ITEM I doe giue, and beciucath to my }Oungest sonne 

Phillipp Caluert the some of three hundred pounds to paied vnto him att the age of one, 
and Twenty, And for his educacon and maintenance in the meane tyme I doe order and 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 15 

require my eldest sonne Cicell Caluert to take care, and be att the charge thereof. 
ITEM I doe give vnto my daughter Anne Peaseley and my daughter Grace Talbot each 
of them a Crosse of Goulde of the valew of fYortie shillings a peece. And likewise to my 
sonne in Lawe Robert Talbott. and William Peaseley Two other crosses of Gould of the 
same valew to be given vnto them within one moneth after my death. ITEM I doe give 
to my seruant William Mason the some of ffortie pounds ITEM I doe giue vnto my 
seruant Bridgett Draycoate the some of Twenty pounds. ITEM I doe giue vnto my 
seruant Edward Burke the some of fTyue pounds All which three somes to mj^ seruants 
my will is that they be paied vnto them within Sixe monethes next after my death. 
ITEM I doe hereby appoint, and require my Sonne Cicill Caluert to paie and discharge 
all my debts that shall appeare to be due And all theise Legacies heerebefore menconed 
that are heere Charged vpon him AND for better pformance of this my last will, and 
Testam' I doe heerby nominate my sonne Cicell Caluert to be my sole Executo' And 
desire my Noble, and auntient freinds the Lord Viscount Wentworth, and the Lord Cot- 
tmgton to be my ouerseers and supuiso'"^ thereof whome I likewise humblie request to 
haue a care of my poore familie, a^id to Patronize, and loue it as they have bene pleased 
to doe vnto mee ever since our first Acquaintaunce in Co'*^ and elsewhere ITEM I doe 
give alsoe which I should haue menconed before amongst my knidred att Kiplie in the 
North the some of Twenty pounds to be disposed, att the discrecon of my Executor and 
sonne Cicell Caluert because he knoweth the parlies. IN WITNES whereof I haue this 
fTowerteenth daye of Aprill One Thowsand Sixe hundred Thirtie and Two putt my 
hande, and scale vnto this my last will, and Testament. MEMORANDUM vpon fur- 
ther Consideracon my will, and pleasure is That my sonne Leonard Caluert in regard 
that he is allreadie a man, and my second sonne he shall haue Nyne hundred pounds to 
be paied him within sixe monethes after my death out of the monyes remayninge in 
trust in the hands of the Lord Cottington, and S'' William Ashton my fifeoffees. And the 
remainder of the monies in theire hands (The saide porcons to my daughter Hellen and 
my Sonne Leonard being deducted I doe bequeath to be devided equallie betweene my 
sonnes George Caluert. and Henry Caluert to be paied vnto them att the yeares of One 
and Twentie. And my will is that the first porcon menconed in this will to be given to 
my sonne Leonard shalbe voide: 

(Signed) George Baltimore. 

Witnesses, Tobie Mathew, Leonard Caluert, Will: Peaselj^ Will: Mason. s 

The will was dated April 14, 1632, and proved April 21, 1632. (Preroga- 
tive Court of Canterbury.) 

Children of Georsre Calvert, first Lord Bahimore, and Anne jMvnne : 

3. CECILIUS CALVERT, second Lord Baltimore, born 1606: died November 
30, 1675; married Anne Arundel. 

A 4. Leonard Calvert, made Prothonotary and Keeper of the Writs, etc., in Con- 
naught and Thomond. February 10, 1621; was appointed Governor of 
Maryland by his brother Cecilius in 1633.'' arriving in the province the 
following year;' continued as governor until his death, at St. Mary's, 
Maryland, June 9, 1647.'* Said to have had a daughter Anna, who mar- 
ried-j ^iehai ' d - Brookef and a son William, who married Elizabeth Stone. 

^Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 48. 

••Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 131. " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," in London Magazine. 

'Letter from Leonard Calvert to Sir Richard Lechford, dated May 30, 1634: " Kinde Partner— S'. 
Cecilia-s day the 22*'' of November 1634 a small Gale of winde comeing from the Northeast, wee weighed 

from the cowes at the Barbadoes ... we arrived January the third . . . thence wee set sayle for 

S» Christophers .... we set sayle for Virginia, where we arriued the 27th of ffebruary, and staying here 
some 8 or 9 dayes .... we sayled for Maryland, the countrey we so longe looked for." (Calvert Papers 
vol. iii., p. 19.) 

8 Browne's " Calverts," p. 134. 



i6 THE ANCESTRY OF 

5. George Calvert accompanied his brotliL-r Leonard to Maryland, " and died 

not long after in Maryland or Virginia." '•• 

6. Francis Calvert, who died before his father. i" 

7. Henry Calvert. A grant was made by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 

November 25, 1635, to C:ccilius, Lord Baltimore, of administration on 
the estate of his brother, Henry Calvert, who died abroad at sea and 
unmarried.^ 1 

8. Anne Calvert, married William Pcasley.i^ 

9. Dorothy Calvert, died unmarried. 

10. Elizabeth Calvert, died unmarried. 

11. Grace Calvert, married Sir Robert Talbot, Bart., of Cartmvn, County Kildare, 

a kinsman uf the Earl •>[ T\ rcnimcl.'-' 

12. John Calvert, died young. 



Child of George Calvert by second marriage : 

13. Philip Calvert, who was appointed Secretary of Maryland in 1660. by his half- 
brother, Cccilius, Lord Baltimore; commissioned deputy Governor by 
his nephew, Governor Charles Calvert in i66g and again in 1671.1* 



IX. 

3. Cecilius Calvekt, second Lord Baltimore, born 1606; died November 
30, 1675; married in 1629 Lady Anne, daughter of Thomas, Lord Arundel, of 
Wardour,^° by his second wife, Anne, who was daughter of Miles Philipson, of 
Crooke, in Westmoreland. He entered Trinity College, Oxford, in 1621. In 
June, 1632, the charter for the province of Maryland, which had been prom- 
ised to his father, was issued to Cecilius Calvert,^" who, in 1O33, appointed his 
brother, Leonard Calvert, governor ; ^^ sent out colonists and continued 
to promote the interests of that colony until his death. " Under his rule the 
little settlement of about three hundred colonists, sheltered in Indian wigwams 



" Browne's " Calverts," pp. 39, 45. Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 79. 
1" London Magazine, June, 1768. 

11 Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 79. 

12 " My brother Peasley who dwelleth in a part of M^. Gages new house in Lincolnes Inns fielde : right 
against the Cock-pit play-house." Leonard Culvert to Sir Richard Lechford, May 30, 1634. (Calvert 
Papers, vol. iii., p. 23.) See also " Memoirs of the P.iltimore Family," London Magazine, June, 1768. 

1'' Browne's " Calverts," p. 11. London Magazine, June, 1768, to Sir Thomas Wentworth and others. 

1* A settlement made by George, Lord Baltimore, of the Manor of Danby Wiskc and the Manor House 
of Kiplin in Yorkshire, dated March 20, 3d Charles, mentions, " Dame Joane Baltimore nowe wife," also 
" Phillipp Calvert sixt sonne of the said S^ George Calvert Lord Baltimore." (Calvert Papers, No. 992.) 
Browne's " Calverts," p. 167. Hall's " Baltimores," p. 60. Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 65. 

ij" The Lords Baltimore and the Maryland Palatinate," Hall, 1902, pp. 28, 29, and " Memoirs of the 
Baltimore Family," London Magazine. 

I''" The Lords Baltimore and the Maryland Palatinate," p. 29. 

1' Browne's "Calverts," p. 46. [Governor Leonard Calvert, prior to his death, in 1647, named 
Thomas Greene, one of the Council, as his successor. In 1648, William Stone was appointed Governor 
by Lord Baltimore. Josias Fendall succeeded Stone as Governor m 1658. Charles Calvert, son of 
Cecilius, Lord Baltimore, was made Governor in 1661 and so continued during the life of his father. Vide 
" The Lords Baltimore and the Maryland Palatinate," pp. 53, 54, 59. Browne's " Calverts," p. 60.] 



I 



ROSALIE MORRIS J DHNSON 17 

at the mouth of the St. Mary's River, had increased to a community of between 
sixteen and twenty thousand souls, hving in ten counties, each of which was 
provided with a complete civil and military organization." ^^ In 1634 he was a 
member of Parliament. 

Cecilius Calvert had at least two children, a daughter who married 

Blackstone, and died prior to September 24, 1671,^''' and a son, Charles Cal- 
vert (14), who succeeded him. 

VIII. 

14. Charles Cal>-ert, third Lord Baltimore, born 1630; died February 
20, 1714/15; married (i) Jane, daughter of \ incent Lowe and widow of 
Henry Sewall, who had been Secretary of the Province of Maryland.^'' Charles 
Calvert was three times married, but the names of his other wives are not 
known. -^ In 1661 he was appointed Governor of Maryland by his father ; his 
uncle, Philip Calvert, at the same time served as deputy Governor.-- Upon 
the death of the second Lord Baltimore, in 1675, Charles Calvert succeeded to 
the titles and estates,-^ and, on going to England the following year, appointed 
his infant son, Cecilius, as Governor.-* He returned to Maryland and con- 
tinued as Governor until the boundary disputes with Penn made his presence 
in England necessary. Embarking in 1684, he appointed his infant son, Bene- 
dict Leonard Calvert, Governor, with a board of deputies, of which George 
Talbot, a kinsman of Lord Baltimore's cousin, Sir William Talbot, was presi- 
dent.-^ Through the indiscretion of Talbot in connection with the efforts of 
disaffected Protestants and other persons in Maryland, an insurrection was 
raised. The members of the Coimcil were forced to surrender ; addresses were 
sent to the King, William of Orange, urging him to take possession of the 
])rovince and to appoint a governor to administer its affairs in the name of the 
crown. In 1691 the King asserted the royal authority by the appointment of 
Sir Lionel Copley as governor. Succeeding governors were appointed by the 
crown until 171 5. The authority of the Lords Baltimore was thus in abeyance. 
They were no longer Absolute Lords, as prescribed in the charter of Maryland, 
but remained Proprietaries in the sense that they were lords of the soil. After 
1684 Lord Baltimore did not return to the colony.-*^ 

Children of Charles Calvert, third Lord BaUimore : 

15. Anne Calvert, married Hon. Edward Somerset. (July 10, 1694. Post-nup- 
tial settlement by the Hon. Edward Somerset on Anne, his wife, and 
daughter of Charles. Lord Baltimore.) -'' 



^8 Browne's " Calverts," p. 175. 

•9 Calvert Papers, vol. i., pp. 269, 293. 

20 Hall's " Baltimores," p. 128. ^^aior Nicholas Sewell, of St. Mary's.Virginia, made deposition June 25, 
1722, that the wife of Lord Charles Baltimore had been his mother and that he was sixty-seven years of age. 

21 Charles, Lord Baltimore, in writing to his brother-in-law, Nicholas Lowe, in 1679, mentions, "my 
wife vour Sister." (Calvert Papers, vol. i.,p. 314. See Ibid., pp. 63, 77.) 

22 Hall's '■ Baltimores," p. 160; "ibid.,p.99; « Ibid., p. 102 ; 2^' Ibid., p. 118 ; 26 ibid., pp. 123, 
124, 125, 128. 

^'' Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 80. 



i8 THE ANCESTRY OF 

16. Cecjlius Calvert, was an infant in 1676 when appointed Governor of Mary- 

land, upon his father's departure for England; -* died between 1679 and 
1684.20 

17. BENEDICT LEONARD CALVERT, born January. 1678/9; ■"■o died April 5, 

1715; married. J.mnary 2. 1698/9, Lady Charlotte Lee. 

i'licrc nui) have been ullier children than those named above. 



VIL 

Renkdict Leon.ari) C'\l\i:rt. fomth Lord Baltimore, born January, 
1678/9;"'* died April 5, 1715; married January 2, 1698/9, Lady Charlotte 
Lee, who died in 1731, eldest daughter of Edv.'ard Henry, first Earl of Litch- 
field and granddaughter of Charles H. ; the Earl of Litchfield having married 
Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, the daughter of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland.^- 
Benedict Leonard Calvert was elected member of Parliament for Harwich in 
Essex during the last year of his life, and succeeded to the Baltimore title upon 
the death of his father in the same year, a few weeks before his own decease. 
In 1713 he had renoimced the Catholic faith and attached himself to the Church 
of England. His father, displeased at this, withdrew the yearly allowance of 
^450 which he had granted to him, and therefore Benedict was obliged, out of 
his wife's allowance, to educate his six children, who had formerly been edu- 
cated on the continent in Catholic schools, at their grandfather's expense. 
Benedict appealed to Queen Anne, who granted him a pension of £300 during 
his father's lifetime, and at his, Benedict's, request appointed John Hart Gov- 
ernor of Maryland. Hart allowed Benedict £500 per annum out of his emolu- 
ments. •'•' The news of the succession of Benedict I>eonard Calvert as Proprie- 
tary had hardly been received in Maryland before it was followed by the an- 
nouncement of his death. There is no record of acts of his as Proprietary. 
John Hart continued as Governor until 1720.^* 

Children of Benedict Leonard Calvert : 

18. Charles Calvert, fifth Lord Baltimore, born September 29, 1699; died April 
24, 1751; married July 20, 1730, Mary Jansen. 



^^ Hall's " Baltimores," p. 102. 

'"Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 3.08. Hall's " Baltimores," p. 118. 

•■'" Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 307. 

'• " My wife and I think as you do about the weaning of our son Benedict Leo. and that till he haue 
some teeth it will not be safe." Letter of Governor Charles Calvert, July 9, 1679. (Calvert Papers, vol. i., 
P- 307-) 

'2 Hall's " Baltimores," pp. 138, 140; also " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine for 
June, 1768. The death of the mother of "Lord Baltimore" appears in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731. 
Barbara Villiers, or Palmer (1640-1709), whom Charles made Countess of Castlemaine in 1661, and 
Duchess of Cleveland in 1670, was the mother of the three Fitzroy Dukes, of Southampton and Cleveland 
(1662-1730), Grafton (1663-1690), and Northumberland (1665-1716). 

3' Hall's " Baltimores," pp. 138, 139 ; .Scudder's " .American Commonwealths." 

"Hall's " Baltimores," p 151. 



R O S A L I E M O R R I S J O H N S O N ig 



19. Benedict Leonard Calvert, born September 20, 1700; ^■' Member of Parlia- 

ment for Harwich. 1726; '^6 Governor of Maryland, 1727 to i73i;3t 
resigned the governorship to Samuel Ogle owing to ill health and 
embarked for England, May 18, 1732; died on the voyage, June i, and 
was buried at sea.^s 

20. Edward Henry Calvert, born August 31, 1701 ;•''•* died April ur May, 1730; ■'o 

appointed, February 11, 1728, Commissary General of Maryland,"*! 



35 " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine, June, 1768. 

36 Ibid. 

■" Hall's " Baltimores," p. 151. 

^s " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine. In connection with Benedict Leonard 
Calvert are the following items: In the collection of the late Edward Shippen, Esquire, is a letter dated 
London, June 7, 1727, from Edward Henry Calvert to his brother Benedict Leonard Calvert in Maryland, 
to which place the latter had just gone as governor, in which he states that on May 12, Lord Baltimore, 
while playing tennis, had received a blow upon his nose from a ball, which caused serious bleeding at that 
time and afterwards. Speaks of Lord Baltimore's wife and his own wife. Says " Brother Hyde has taken 
a house in Crown Court," within three doors of him. Sends his good wishes to Calvert (former Governor), 
his wife and their pretty baby. 

" July 23, 1729 : Peter Jenings, the son of Edward Jennings and Ariana his wife was born at Annap- 
olis and Baptized the loth day of August following by the Rever* Mr. Humphreys. His Excellency Bend*. 
Leo* Calvert and John Belae Esq. God Fathers and Marg'. Calvert, wife of the Hon'ble Edward Henry 
Calvert Godmother." (Register of St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, Md.) 

The will of Benedict Leonard Calvert " late of the County of Surrey in the Kingdom of Great Britain 
but at present of the Province of Maryland Esq'' being sick and weak of body," was dated April 22, 1732 ; 
proved November 10, 1732. For the ." Incouragement of Learning and Education of the Youth in the 
Province " he bequeathed one full third part of his personal estate to " The Rector, Governours, Trustees 
and Visitors of the Free School called King William School Scituate and being in the City of Annapolis." 
A third part of this bequest was for the salary and support of the masters and ushers of said school, but if a 
master should be wanting during one whole year, so that the children could not be taught, the money was to 
be paid to the church warden and vestry of St. Anne's Parish in Anne Arundel County, to be applied to the 
purchase of land for a glebe for the said parish for the use of the minister for the time being, etc. If there 
should be more than sufficient money for the purchase of the glebe there should be added to the same more 
or better buildings, and negroes and stock purchased for use thereon. 

One hundred and fifty pounds was left to each of the executors. To his sisters, Charlotte Brerewood 
and Jane Hyde, fifty pounds ; to Mrs. Theodosia Lawrence forty pounds annually and an additional forty 
pounds for her great care and trouble in his several sicknesses. To the poor of the city of Annapolis, ten 
pounds. To his cook maid Margaret Hands, ten pounds ; to servant Robert Young, ten pounds. 

To his goddaughter Elizabeth Calvert, daughter of Charles Calvert, Esq., Commissary General of the 
province, his negro boy called Osmyns. To his sister. Lady Baltimore, a mourning ring, and to his dear 
brother, the Right Honorable Charles Lord Baltimore, a mourning ring, in remembrance of him and as a 
sincere acknowledgment of his brotherly kindness towards him. 

" My Will and Desire is that the charges w'='» I have paid or may be chargeable with on acco* of the 
funeral! of my late Dear Brother Edward Henry Calvert, shall not be charged to or paid by my Sister in Law 
Margaret Calvert. In Case my Dear Brother The Hono*"'^ Cecelius Calvert shall not at the time of my Death 
be so well provided for as to have either the possession of right and title to an Imediate possession of a Sume 
of Ten thousand Pounds, to his own use. Then I Give unto my said Brother the Residue of my Personall 
Estate, But in case my said Brother shall happen to have any such sume Then I Give Such Residue to all the 
Children of my Brother in Law John Hyde of Kingston Lisle in the County of Berks Esq' And my Dear 
Sister Jane Hyde (Except the Eldest Son )" 

His brother, Cecilius Calvert, was appointed executor for the estate in Europe and Edmund Jennings of 
Annapolis, Esq., for that in Maryland. The will was witnessed by Geo. Plater, J. Ross and Thomas Doughty. 
(Anne Arundel County Wills. Liber C. C. No. 3, folio 496.) 

39 " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine. 

*'5 His will dated April 24th, proved May 15, 1730, appoints his wife executrix and sole legatee. 

^1 In the collection of the late Edward Shippen, Esquire, is a letter dated Nov. 16, 1728, from Charles 
Lowe to Benedict Leonard Calvert, sent by the hands of Edward Henry Calvert, who was about to sail to 
Maryland with the appointment of Commissary, to succeed Charles Calvert. Date of commission given in 
" Memoirs of Baltimore Family," London Magazine. 



20 THE ANCESTRY OF 

and First Member of the Council of that province, June 19, 1728; *^ 

married Margaret ,*•' who married (2), October 15, 1741, James 

Fitz Gerald, Esq., of the Middle Temple.*-' 

21. Cecilius Calvert, born November, 1702; died without issue in 1765; appointed 

Secretary of Maryland. January, 1729/30,*'' by his brother. Lord Balti- 
more. Upon the death of the latter, 1751, was constituted Secretary 
of the province, by Frederick, sixth Lord Baltimore, and resided in Eng- 
land, managing the latter's affairs.*"' Edward Jennings, the Deputy Sec- 
retary, resided in Maryland.*^ 

22. Cii.AKLOTTE Cal\'ekt, bom November. 1702, twin to Cecilius; died 1744; -"^ mar- 

ried, prior to 1723, Thomas Brerewood, Esquire.''' 

23. Jane Calvert, born November, 1703; married 1720, John Hyde, Esquire, s'^ of 

Kingston Lisle, in the County of Berks, and left issue. 

24. Bardara Calvert, born October 3, 1704; died in infancy. 

VI. 

18. Cii.VRLES Calvert, fifth Lord Baltimore, born September 29, 1699; 
(.lied April 24, 1751 ; married July 20, 1730, Mary Jansen,^^ who died Sep- 
tember 22, 1748; youngest daughter of Sir Theodore Jansen, of Wimbleton, 
in Surrey, Bart., merchant of London, director of the East IncHa and South Sea 
Companies, and member of i^arhament for Yarmouth,^- by his wife, Williamza, 
daughter to Sir Robert Henley, of the Grange in Hampshire. Charles Calvert 
succeeded to the title upon the death of his father, April 5, 1715,^'' and as the 



*2 Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 66. 

*■' Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 80. 

" " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine. 

** Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 67; vol. ii., p. 29. 

^''.See letters of Cecilius Calvert, Calvert Papers, vol. ii. 

•'" Hall's " Baltimores," p. 157. 

■**" Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine. 

*' Letter — Cecilius Calvert to Benjamin Tasker, May 15, 1752 : " Thomas Brerewood Esq'', who was by 
Permission of the late Lord Proprietary suffered to enjoy the Grant of Ten thousand acres the Bequest of 
Lady Baltimore, who devised the same to the Hon'>'«. Charlotte Brerewood . . . and as the said Thomas 
Brerewood is dead," etc. (Calvert Papers, vol. ii., p. 146 ; see also vol. i., p. 80.) 

The collection of the late Edward Shippen, Esquire, of Philadelphia, contains the following original 
letters : 

1. Charles Lowe to his kinsman, Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert, in Italy, dated March 31, 1723, in 
which he mentions Calvert's sister Brerewood ; his brothers Cecil and Edward, and the Hyde family. Lord 
Baltimore at that time was not yet married. 

2. Charlotte Brerewood to her brother Benedict Leonard Calvert, dated July 28, 1723, mentioning 
their sister Hyde and her son. 

3. Thomas Brerewood, Junior, to his brother Benedict Leonard Calvert, in Maryland, dated Decem- 
ber 15, 1729. 

»o May 4, 1720. Marriage Articles of John Hyde, Esq., and the Hon. Jane Calvert. (Calvert Papers, 
vol. i., p. 118. See also same vol., pp. 78, 80.) The Shippen Collection contains a letter from Edward 
Henry Calvert, dated June 7, 1727, to his brother, Benedict Leonard Calvert, in Maryland, in which he states 
that brother Hyde has taken a house in Crown Court, within three doors of him. 

»' " The Lords Baltimore." (Morris, 1874 '< PP- 44. 45) 

^'■'Burke's Dormant Peerages. (1883.) "Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," London Magazine. 
In this connection is the case of Charles, Lord Baltimore vs. Sir Abraham Janssen (Baronet) for recovery of 
Lady Baltimore's portion of Mr. Theodore Janssen's estate. (Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 80.) 

" By chance dining with S^ Abraham Janssen at Wimbleton we saluted yf Health; he . . . hinted a 
Hanch of Venison, I ordered y"" Keeper in y^ Name to leave half a Buck." Cecilius Calvert to Frederick, 
Lord Baltimore, Aug. 21, 1763. (Calvert Papers, vol. ii., p. 212.) 

^^ Hall's " Baltimores," p. 140. 



ROSALIE U O R R I S J O H N S O N 21 

Maryland charter still stood iirm. the proprietary government being only sus- 
pended by the crown on the pretext that it was unsafe in Catholic hands, the 
accession of this Protestant, Charles Calvert, made the pretext no longer tena- 
ble ; therefore, on Charles' guardian, Lord Guilford, petitioning the King, 
George L, " to give encouragement to the educating of the numerous issue of 
so noble a family in the Protestant religion," the government was restored to 
the youthful Proprietary after twenty-three years' abeyance. Lord Guilford 
then assumed charge in the name of his ward, and John Hart was recommended 
as Proprietary Governor.^'* 

Charles Calvert was a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of Parlia- 
ment, first for St. Germain's, in Cornwall, and afterwards for the County of 
Surrey. In 1741 he was appointed Lord of the Admiralty, and six years later 
Cofferer to the Prince of Wales and Surveyor-General of his lands in Corn- 
wall. ''■'* His principal residence was at Woodcote, in the County of Surrey, one 
mile from Epsom, his London residence being Roselyn House, corner of Rus- 
sell Square and Guildford Street, where he died. 

Children of Charles Calvert and Mary Jansen : 

25. Frederick Calvert, sixth Lord Baltimore, born February 6, 1731/2; died 

without lawful issue, September 14, 1771, and the title became extinct. 
Married March 9, 1753. Lady Diana Egerton, who died August, 1758; 
youngest daughter of Scrope, Duke of Bridgewater, by his second 
wife, the Lady Rachel Russel. sister to John, Duke of Bedford."'" 
Frederick succeeded to the title upon the death of his father in 1751. 
He appointed his uncle, Cecilius Calvert, Secretary of Maryland.'^'' 
The latter continued to reside in England, and appears to have been 
factotum for Lord Baltimore, with full charge of his afifairs both in 
England and Maryland."'* 

26. Louisa Calvert, married John Browning, Esquire. ^^ 

27. Caroline Cal\ert, married Robert Eden, Governor of Maryland, 1769 to 

1776.60 

The Gentleman's Magazine, in 1737. contained notice of the death of the Hon. Frances 
Dorothy Calvert, daughter of Lord Baltimore. 



5* Scudder's " American Commonwealths." John Hart continued governor of Maryland until 1720 ; 
Charles Calvert (cousin of Lord Baltimore), 1720-1727 ; Benedict Leonard Calvert (brother of Baltimore) 
1727-1731 ; Samuel Ogle, 1731-1732, 1733-1742, 1747-1752. 

5» Hall's " Baltimores," p. 144 ; and Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 126, as follows: 

Feb. 3, 1746. Patents appointing Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore, Cofferer of the Household to H. R. H. 
Frederick, Prince of Wales, and as Surveyor General to H. R. H. Frederick. 

S6 Hall's " Bahimores," pp. 161, 162, 163, 168 ; " Memoirs of the Baltimore Family," Lotidon Magazine. 

5' Hall's " Baltimores," p. 157. 

58 See letters of Cecilius Calvert. (Calvert Papers, vol ii.) Under Frederick, the Maryland governors 
were: Horatio Sharpe, 1753 to 17^9 ; Robert Eden (the Proprietary's brother-in-law) 1769 to 1776. Hall's 
" Baltimores," p. 151. 

59 Dormant Peerages. (See Calvert Papers, vol. i., pp. 86, 87.) 

60 Hall, p. 151. (See Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 124.) June 11, 1751. Appointment of Cecilius Calvert 
and Thomas Bladen as guardians of Caroline Calvert. (Calvert Papers, vol. i., p. 118.) Secretary Cecilius 
Calvert writing to Frederick, Lord Baltimore, from Surrey, October 28, 1762, says : " Miss Caroline is here 
for a few days with Miss Waker, in passage Robbed by a high-way-man ; y Sister of 8 Guineas, the other of 
one. The Assailant withdrew his Pistol politely, his face covered with black Crape. Frighted, however, 
they returned him thanks for civility." (Calvert Papers, vol. ii., p. 207.) 



22 THE ANCESTRY OF 



Charles Calvert, fifth Lord Baltimore, had also son: 

28. BENEDICT CALVERT, of Mount Airy, Maryland, died January, 1788; mar- 
ried, April 21, 1748, Elizabeth Calvert. 

V. 

28. BexXEDICT Calvert, son of Charles, -ftith Lord Baltimore, and half 
brother to Frederick, sixth and last Lord Baltimore, was sent to Maryland in 
charge of Captain Vernon to Dr. George Steuart, at Annapolis, with a private 
tutor, Unorio Razolini. Through the intluence of his father he was appointed 
collector of customs at Patuxent, by a certificate from the Commissioners of 
Customs, dated November 16, 1744. This document, written on parchment and 
with three forty-shilling stamps attached, is still preserved,''^ and an endorse- 
uKiit ihereon shows that he was qualified before Governor Bladen at Annapolis, 
July 19, 1745. 

In the Maryland Gazette, dated at Annapolis March 9, 1744/5, appears 
the following: "Yesterday . . . was appointed Benedict Calvert Esq. Col- 
lector of His Maj's Customs for Patuxent, to be one of his L^shp's Honourable 
Council of this Province." 

The register of St. Anne's Parish, Annapolis (page 450), shows that on the 
2 1st of April, 1748, " Was married the Honourable Benedict Calvert Esq. 
Collector of his Majesty's Customs for the District of Patuxent, to Miss Eliza- 
beth Calvert, the only Surviving Daughter of the late honourable Charles Cal- 
vert Es(|., deceased (formerly Governor of this Province) by the Reverend 
Mr. John Gordon Rector of this Parish, according to the Form prescribed by 
the Church of England, in the Presence of Mr. (^norio Razolini, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Razolini and Miss Ariana Brice." 

The Maryland Ca::cffc of Wednesday, April 2y, 1748, also contains this 
announcement : " Last Thursday the Flonourable Benedict Calvert Esq. Col- 
lector of his Majesty's Customs for Patuxent District &c. was married to 
Miss Elizabeth Calvert only surviving Daughter of the late Honourable Charles 
Calvert Esq. deceased, former Governor of this province." 

The following is an abstract of the pre-nuptial agreement of Benedict and 
Elizabeth Calvert: ^- 

ARTICLES TRIPARTITE of AGREEMENT indented this fourteenth day of April 
1748 between Bene Calvert Esq'' of the City of Annapolis in the Province of Maryland 
of the first pari and Elizabeth Calvert of the said Citj' spinster of the second part and 
his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esquire of the third part following (to wit) WHEREAS a 
marriage is intended to be (by God's Grace) shortly' had and solemnized between the 
above mentioned Benedict Calvert and the said Elizabeth Calvert by means whereof the 
said Benedict Calvert will be entitled to the some or value of three thousand pounds 
sterling as the portion and fortune of the said Elizabeth Calvert over & above the pos- 
session of a considerable quantity of land in the said Province belonging to the said 
Elizabeth Calvert IN CONSIDERATION therefore of the said marriage and the said 



** In the possession of the compiler of these papers. 

^'^ Certified copy of agreement in possession of John Calvert, Esquire, of Philadelphia. 



BENEDICT CALVEEi 

b. England; 

d. in Maryland Jan., 17 



I 

Rebecca, Eleanor, 

b. Dec. 25, 1749; d. Sept. 28, 1811; 
d. in infancy. m. (1) Feb. 3, 1774, 

.John Parke Custis; 
(2) 1783, Dr. David Stuart; 
(issue). 



I I 

Charles, Elizabeth, 

b. Oct. 3, 1756; m. June 15, 1780, 
d. 1777; Dr. Charles Steuart 

urun. (issue). 



Edwar I 

b. N I 
d. Jiji 
ni. J 
1{| 



I 

Caroline Maria, 
b. July 15, 1800; 
d. Nov. 25, 1842; 
m. June 19, 1823, 

Thomas Willing Morris, 

son of Luke and Ann (Willing) Morris. 



I 

George Henry, 
b. Jan. 2, 1803; 
d. s. p. May 24, 1889; 
m. May 8, 1829, 

Elizabeth Steuart. 



I 

Marie Louise, 
d. 1809, 

aged 5 years. 



Rosalie Eugenia Morris, 
b. May 5, 1824; d. July 17, 1878. 
unni. 

Anna Maria Morris, 
b. Mar. 23, 182(j; d. Mar. 6, 1900; 
m. Sept. 7, 1848, Francis Key Murray. 

George Calvert Morris, 
b. Oct. 10, 1828; d. Apr. 29, 1882; 
m. July 15, 1S56, Elizabeth Kuhn. 

Julia Meta Morris, 

b. Dec. 27, 1830; d. June 8, 1857; 
unm. 

Henry Thomas Morris, 

li. Oct. 10, 1833; d. Dec. 17, 1833. 

Carrington Morris, 

b. Mar. 29, 1835; d. Apr. 23, 1835. 

Eugene Carrington Morris, 
h. Feb. 12, 1836; d. Apr. 11, 1837. 

Caroline Maria Morris, 

b. Mar. 5, IS—; d. aged 12 days. 



I 

Rosalie Eugenia, 
b. Oct. 19, 1806; 
d. Jan., 1845; 
m. Nov. 11, 1830, 
Charles Henry Ca )i 



— Eugenia Carter, 
b. July 3, 1832; 
m. Frank Hall. 

— Alice Carter, 
b. Apr. 3, 1833; d. May 20, 1905; 
m. Dec. 3, 1851, Oden Bowie. 

— Bernard Carter, 
b. July 20, 1834; 
m. Apr. 20, 1858, Mary Buckner 

— Ella Carter, 
b. Dec. 10, 1830; d. Sept. 27, 18:; 
m. June 18, 1863, Samuel Kno.x G i] 

— Annette Carter, 
m. Henry Brogden. 

— Mildred Carter, 
b. Oct., 1838; 

unm. 

— Mary Randolph Carter, 
b. 1843; 
m. Frederick George Bier. 



ILIZABETH CALVERT, 

laughter of Hon. Charles Calvert, 
Governor of Mar3land, 1720-27. 



b, 


Philip, 


Leonard, 


CseceUus, 


Robert, 


Feb. 2, 1768; 


d. y. 


d. y. 


d. y. 


d. y. 


Jan. 28, 1838: 










i.June 11, 1799, 










losalie Eugenia Stier 










lau. of Henri Joseph and 










larie Louise (Peeters) Stier. 











I I I 

John, William, Ariana, 

d. unm. d. unm. d. unm. 



I 

Henry J. Albert 
d. 1820, 
aged 9 y 



9 mos. 



I 

Marie Louise, 
d. 1813, 

aged 1 y. 5 



!ta Norris. 



Julia, 
b. Jan. 31, 1814; 
d. June 8, 1888; 
m. May 7, 1833, 
Dr. Richard Henry Stuart. 



I 

Amelia Isabella, 
d. 1820, 
aged 2 y. 9 mos. 



Ella Calvert, 
b. Mar. 20, 1840; d. Feb. 17, 1902; 
ni. Sept. 3, 18G1, Duncan G. Campbell. 

George Henry Calvert, 

b. Nov. 29," 1841; 

m. Dee. 26, 1872, Frances Seybolt. 

Charles Baltimore Calvert, 
b. Feb. 5, 1843; 
m. 1&G6, Eleanor Mackubin. 

William Morris Calvert, 
b. Oct. 12, 1845; d. Sept. 7, 1SS9; 
m. Mar., 1888, Laura Hunt. 

Eugene Stier Calvert, 
b. Dec. 19, 1846; d. Nov. 30, 1894. 
unm. 

i Jules van Havre Calvert, 

b. Oct. 30, 1848; d. Aug, 4, 1849. 



— Rosalie Eugenia Stuart, 
b. July 23, 1835; 
m. Nov. 8, 1859, Sholto Turberville Stuart. 

— Margaret Stuart, 
b. Mar. 29, 1837; d. Feb. 16, 1893; 
m. Nov. 23, 1865, Robert W. Hunter. 

— Julia Calvert Stuart, 
b. Sept. 16, 1838; d. Feb. 12, 1861; 
m. May 23, 1860, Dr. E. Lee Jones. 

— Mary Stuart, 
b. Jan. 30, 1840; d. Dec. 5, 1859; 

unm. 

— Ada Stuart, 
b. Oct. 27, 1841; 
ni. (1) Sept. 9, 18G3, Capt. Wm. W. 

Randolph; 
(2) Robert L. Robb. 

— Caroline Calvert Stuart, 
b. Feb. 2, 1844; d. Oct. 29, 1S72; 
m. Oct. 4, 1871, Col. F. W. M. Holliday. 

— Richard Stuart, 
b. Oct. 19, 1845; d. May 18, 1862. 

— Calvert Stuart, 

b. Feb. 11, 1848; d. May 28, 1862. 



I 

I 



ROSALIE MORRIS T O H N S O N 



23 



portion the said Benedict Calvert doth hereby grant and agree to and with the said 
Samuel Ogle Esq-' that the said Elizabeth Calvert shall and may at any time dur- 
ing her coverture or at death whether she survive the said Benedict Calvert or not by 
Writing under her hand and seal have free liberty and full power to dispose or give to 

any person any part of the said sum etc. 

In Witness Whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably 
set their hands & seals the day and year first above Written. 

(Signed) Ben' Calvert 
ELizth Calvert 
Signed Sealed & delivered In Sam^ Ogle 

Presence of O. Razolini, C. Razolini and Ciia« Carroll 

A letter to Lord Baltimore from Mr. Razolini commends Benedict Cal- 
vert's choice, and says that the young lady has had the best offers in the 
county, and he " hopes that his Lordship will think that he has done right in 
encouraging the match." 

The reply to this was probably the original, endorsed " Lord Baltimores 
Letter." Owned by John Calvert, Esq., of Philadelphia. 

Sir London Sep'' 2, 1748 

I am favour'd w"' Your letter of iit'i May, & am Extremly glad to hear 
has made so good a Choice, & you need not Doubt but I will Endeavour to make his 
fortune Agreable to the young Ladys I am 

S^ 

Y'- Most Ob 

Baltimore 

There are still preserved a number of letters from Lord Baltimore to his 
son Benedict, and from Benedict to his father, etc., among which are the fol- 
lowing: 

Dear Child 

You will by this Opportunity receive Duplicates of a Commission with the proper 
Instructions from y*^ proper Offices Appointng you Collector of Patuxent in y^' Room 
of Rousby deceased and I make no doubt but you will do Your Utmost to Execute it to 
the Utmost of your Power, and I must desire you will get y"^ most Able to Aid and Assist 
you, and I hope you will Endeavour to get Mr. Jennings to help you and that You'l give 
him such Encouragment as may make it worth his while. 

I desire you will Consult with Mr. Bladen and Mr. Tasker I shall Omit no Oppor- 
tunity of doing all in my Power to show how much I am 

Your Affectionate 
London Feb^ 7th 1745 Father 

Baltimore 

Qj.. Child London Feby i8th 1745/6 

I send you herewith an Order to take Immediate Possession of Some Lands and 
Negroes, w*** all y*^ Stocks of What kind so Ever, which Mr. Sam: Hyde Has Trans- 
fcr'd to me this Day.^^ And are under the Care of Mr. Will: Mattingly, His Overseer at 



^ The lands transferred by Samuel Hyde at the date of this letter were afterwards sold by Lord Balti- 
more and purchased by Benedict Calvert, as shown by the following : 

THIS INDENTURE made the third day of June 1751 Between Ignatius Digges of Prince Georges County 
in the Province of Maryland Gentleman of the one part and Benedict Calvert of the City of Annapolis and 



24 THE A N C E S 1 R \' OF 

Patu.xon. and as I Design this for You, 1 desire you will take Immediate Possession of 
them 

Von will Likewise receive a Letter from Mr. Hyde to his Overseer to give you 
Immediate Possession And to be Aiding and Assisting to You 

You must make out Lists w*^'* an Account of the Value of all You find and are put 
in Possession ofif,. to transmit to me 

I would Advise yt)u to Conliiuic for the Present y'' Same Overseer 

your affectionate 

P S Carryed y' other side Father Baltimore 

Mr. Tasker has Coppys of the Within Lists Acquaint him I have Inform'd you of 
it, The Governor has Likewise orders to be Aiding and Assisting to You, I shall send 
y* goods as soon as Possible, w'-'^ you will see by y*^ Inclos'd List Mr. Hyde's Overseer 
has wrote for 

Pray do not tl'.ink of Marrying till you hear from me haveing some things to Pro- 
pose to you nuich for Your Advantage, And believe me I never will force Your Inclina- 
tions, Only Propose what 1 think will make you most Happy, Afterwards Leave it to 
\ our own Determination C B 

N :B The List as is Mentiond Above are Inclos'd w^'^ a Letter to You by Capt" 
Watson in y"^ Jenny, and by this Opportunity is Inclos'd to Mr. Tasker Duplicates of y<^ 
Said List, w"^'' if y*^ said Letter & List does not Come so soon to hand as this, apply to 
him for them C B 

Benedict Calvert Esq'' <^* 



Province aforesaid Esquire of the other part. Whereas by indentures of lease and release bearing date respec- 
tively on or about the Seventeenth and Eigliteenth days of Eeliruary 1745 made between Samuel Hvde late of 
London Merchant deceased by the name of Samuel Hyde of Rood Lane London Merchant, of the one part and 
Charles Lord Baltimore of the other part he the said Samuel Hyde did grant and confirm unto liim the said 
Charles Lord Baltimore all that Plantation called his Lordships Kindness containing by estimation Six thou- 
sand seven hundred Acres of land — And also all tliat other Plantation called and known by the name of the 
several tracts — containing by Estimation Two thousand five hundred Acres — unto the said Charles Lord 
Baltimore his heirs and assigns forever. And Whereas the aforesaid two tracts of land were on the twenty 
ninth June 1750 by the direction of the said Charles Lord Baltimore sett up to Publick Vendue by Auction 
at which said Sale the said Ignatius Digges was the highest bidder at seven hundred and sixty pounds sterling 
for the first mentioned Tract and at seven hundred and ten pounds for the last mentioned Tract Xow this 
Indenture Witnesseth that the said Ignatius Digges in consideration of one thousand four hundred and seventy 
pounds (being the total of the ais'^ sums of money) Doth grant and confirm unto the said Benedict Calvert — 
all those above mentioned Plantations, all which Premises are in Prince Georges County on a River called 
Patuxen in the Proprietary of Maryland on the continent of America and are part of certain I^and and 
Premises released and conveyed by Henry Darnall late of Prince Georges County in Maryland aforesaid to 
John Hyde deceased the Father of a certain Samuel Hyde late of London Merchant deceased together with 
all Messuages etc., unto him the said Benedict Calvert his heirs and assigns forever. 

In Witness whereof the partys to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and 
seals the day and year first above written 

(Signed) IGN' DIGGES [seal] 
Signed and Sealed in the presence of Cha. Hammond and Sam. Chamberlaine 

(Certified abstract of deed. "Liber K. J. No. 9, folio 145. Land Records of the late Provincial 
Court of Maryland, in the Office of the Court of .\ppeals for the Western Shore," in possession of John 
Calvert, Escjuire, of Philadelphia.) 

The above lands included the estate later known as " Mt. Airy," the home of Benedict Calvert, 
so often referred to in these jwges, which remained in the possession of the family until 1903. 

Marian Calvert Wilson, in an article furnished to The Evenin^^ Star, Washington, D. C , July 16, 1892, 
states that the present house at Mt. Airy was commenced immediately after the purchase, " every brick having 
been brought from ICngland and p.ii(l for in hogsheads of black toliacco, the currency in those days for almost 
all imported goods." 

64 Both the foregoing letters are in possession of R. Winder Johnson. 



ROSALIE M ORRIS JOHNSON 25 

My Lord 

As I think my duty to your Lordship obliges me not to let slip any opportunity of 
acquainting you how your aftairs goes on which are under my care & as I shall always 
make it my business to inform your Lordship of every thing which I imagine may be 
for your service, hope your Lordship will excuse me for troubling you so often, par- 
ticularly as it's done out of a good motive. I went down to your Lordships Plantations 
in order to run out the Lands as I inform'd your Lordship in my last, but after running 
several courses we came to a course which is South six Perches, which course your 
Lordship will find marked in the Copy here with sent you, then Proceeding several 
courses farther we found if we continued that we should have gon into elder surveys by 
means of which we should leave out a great deal of land that we had no right to. Li 
examining a resurvey which CoP: Darnall made upon these lands, I find that the courses 
ought to be South ninty six perches, which course would take in all the Land we leave 
out & would not run us into elder surveys; so by that I imagine that there has been some 
mistake in recording the original deed. I have consulted Mr. Jenings about it & he told 
me there was no other way but by my sending to your Lordship for a Copy of the origi- 
nal deed from Mr. Darnall to Mr. Hyde attested by a Notary Publick. I have been 
obliged to let alone surveying the land till I can gett the Copy of the original deed & as 
your Lordship will be a great sufferer without the land is surveyed the neighbours doing 
great damage by working of it. hope your Lordship will send it by the first Opportunity 
& wishing your Lordships health Dutyfully am 

Your Lordship 

Most obed* & affectionate 

Maryland Servant & Son 

Annapolis Bened* Calvert 

Nov'' i8th 1746. 

(Calvert Papers, Maryland Historical Society.) 

London March 4"' 1748/9 
D"- Son 

I have rccciv'd y*^ pleasure of Your Letters dated y^' 7"' Nov'' & 15 Dec"' & I am 
Extremly sorry that any Occasion should call Mr. Razolini from Maryland and am 
thoroughly satisfyed, he is Deserving of all that can be said of him 

I shall Consult him on M'' Gerrard Letter & if I find any thing can be done in it 
to serve you, you may be Assur'd I shall use y^ proper means, & every thing Else as 
it oiTers to me, I have therefore sign'd a Power of Attorney to you to Dispose of the 
Plantation & y" Different Stocks on y« same, w'^*' I desire, may be done as soon as possi- 
ble of w*^'' I should be glad to see amount to y" Appraisments, And to remitt me out of 
the Purchase Monies the Sum of £300 & y^ Remainder I desire you will Except for Your 
own use, as part of what I propose for You, my Compliments to y^ wife & am 

Y'' Affectionate Father 

Baltimore 

Another letter, dated not very long before Lord Rallimore's death, in 1751, 
reads thus : 

Dear Ben and Betsey: By Capt. Anderson I sent you the under written things 
in a box enclosed in another by Mr. Phipps, which I hope you have received long before 

this: 

One pair of Velvet mittens for Mrs. Ogle. They are sent by themselves. 

One pair for my dear Betsey. 

One silver porringer and cover. 

One pearl necklace, contains 330 pearls, both ends scaled up together with my seal. 

One pair silver pitchers from Mary Lemon. 



26 THE A N C E S T R Y OF 



(No address or endorsement.) 
Dear Sir 

Your kind Letter of the lO"' Jan'-^ 1 Reeeiv'd a few Days ago and am very sorry 
that you have been to so much trouble in aboUshing an ofitice that was apparently a hurt 
to Trade, as for a riding Surveyor I have no objection in case they think it necessary 
but if the person they appoint is of no greater use then the Surveyors they have here all 
ready it will answer no End. We are a good deal allarm'd at the stamp Act & I can't 
imniagine where the different Provinces will find the money to pay the Duty; I am cer- 
tain we have not encjugh in iVIaryland to pay one years Tax. I have never yet heard how 
the Parliament got over my Lords Charter and why the ministry would sufTer the pro- 
rogative of the Crown to be broke in upon. For the Kings Charters will be of little use 
when the Parliament will take away those privileges which his Majesty or his ancestors 
has thought proper to grant as an Incouragement for the settling of a young Country. 
that our ALjther Country is poor I firmly believe and the distresses of the Colonies are 
such that I am sorry to say if they are not able to relieve her Our Trade is ruin'd, we 
are immensely in Debt and not the least Probability of our geting clear. Our goals are 
not half large to hold the Debtors upon every Road you ride you meet People going from 
different i)arts of the Province to get out of the way of their Creditors. I can venture to 
say tiiat the people of America were never in such a distrest situation as they are at 
present. It gives me much concern that the Americans should be so imprudent as to 
give threats, as it can answer no End but to Irritate the Parliament against us. As for 
my ai'fair with Mj^ Lord its very hard that he will not give me any satisfaction for my 
Right. I ha\ e now Eight Children and very probably shall have many more such an 
addition as the Manor would be considerable towards their future well fare and its very 
certain my fortune is such that I am not able to contend with his Lordship, as the 
expellees of a Law Sute would be more than 1 could well spare without throwing my 
family into the greatest distresses. I can't at present go to England as I have not got 
leave from the Commissioners of the Customs. I wrote to Mr. Benson some time ago 
and he promised to get me leave. I hope it will not be thought intruding upon your 
good nature in desiring when ever opportunity ofifers you will still continue your good 
offices to mc in recommending me to his Lordships favour, and I cant help flattering 
myself from his Lordships generosity & good nature when he comes to consider the 
largeness of my family but he will make it up to me. He has Two Manors in Frederick 
County at present but of little value to him If he would give me a grant of them I should 
be thankfuU as I have three Boys it would be something for them, the youngest of which 
I have taken the Liberty to call after you. It would give me the greatest pleasure to 
have an opportunity to pay my Compliments to you in person but as I have not leave 
from the Custom house and the uncertainty of being able to do any thing for my family 
by going, I dispair of being able to Effect what your superior Interest can't do; so that 
I must defer seeing you for the present till their is a greater probability of success. As 
I am affraid I have wore out your patience with the Length of my Letter shall conclude 
with beging the continuance of your friendship and to assure you that I shall allways 
have a greatfull remembrance of the many many favours reeeiv'd at your hands & with 
the greatest respect I am Dear Sir 

Your most obliged & Very Humble Serv*^ 

BENEDt Calvert 
Maryland Mount Airy 
June 24* '' 1765 

(Calvert Papers in Maryland Historical Society.) 

His death is tlms noted : 

" A few days ago died in an advanced Age at his Seat in Prince George's County 
in this State the Hon. Benedict Calvert Esq. — a Gentleman whose Benevolence of Heart 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 27 



and many other exalted Virtues justly endeared him to his Relations and a numerous 
and respectable Acquaintance, who have sustained an irreparable Loss by his Death." 

^Maryland Journal and Advertiser, Tuesday, January 15, 1788.; 

A descendant "^ writes, May 12, 1895 : 

" Benedict Calvert was buried under the chancel of St. Thomas's Church, at 
Croome, Prince George County, Maryland. My great-grand-mother, Eleanor Custis 
Stuart, daughter of Benedict, was the last person buried under the church. The vestry 
had forbidden such burials, but the body was carried to the church at night and buried; 
and in digging the grave, after taking up the floor, the gold cotitin plate of Benedict was 
uncovered." 

Elizabeth Calvert died in July, 1798/'® 

The will of Benedict Calvert, Esquire, of Prince George's County, he "being 
in good health," was dated March 30, 1780, and proved February 18, 
1788. He devised to his wife, Elizabeth Calvert, during her widowhood, 
all his real and personal estate for the support and maintenance of herself and 
his children. 

He directed that any or all of his servants, negroes, stock and plantation 
utensils should be kept, and all and each of his plantations kept up and main- 
tained, for the profit and at the expense of the estate, unless the executors 
found it advantageous to sell. 

To his son Edward Henry Calvert was devised, after the death of his 
mother, or the day of her marriage, all the lands in Prince George's County 
which were sold by Mr. Samuel Hyde to the Riglit Honorable Charles Lord 
Baltimore and afterwards purchased by Mr. Ignatius Digges and by him con- 
veyed to the testator; also two tracts of land adjoining the lands sold by the 
said Samuel Hyde, the one called the second addition to his Lordship's Kind- 
ness, the other called the third addition to his Lordship's Kindness; and also 
all his lots of land and houses in the city of Annapolis. 

To his son George Calvert, after the death or marriage of his mother, all 
the following tracts of land, to wit : Swanstons Lot, Rieley's Landing, the sev- 
eral parts of Cool Spring Manor and all tracts adjoining the same ; also the 
testator's lot of land and warehouse in the town of Upper Marlboro. 

To his son John Calvert, after the death or marriage of his mother, the 
tract of land called Part of Denmark and Hog Yard Resurveyed, a tract called 
Seaman's Delight, the testator's part of a tract called Saint Elizabeth and his 
two lots lying in the town of BladenslDurg. 

To his son William C'alvert, after the marriage or death of his mother, the 
testator's part of the tract called the Hermitage, his undivided moiety of two 
tracts in Frederick County, the one called John's Mountain, the other the Lost 
Tomahawk, purchased by himself and Thomas Johnson, Jr. 



*s Rosalie E. S. Magruder. 

*6 Record in possession of John Calvert, Esquire, of Philadelphia. 



28 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Executors were to sell his fifth part of the furnace in Frederick County 
called Hampton Furnace. To Miss Mary Read was left one negro girl named 
Kate, the daughter of negro Kachel, and one hundred pounds, for services to 
the testator's family. To his daughter Elizabeth Calvert, a mulatto girl named 
Nell, the daughter of young Amey. To his daughter Eleanor Custis, one mu- 
latto girl named Nell, the daughter of jack. 

If his wife did not remarry, his entire personal estate, after her death, was 
to be divided among his children, Edward Henry Calvert, George Calvert, John 
Calvert, William Calvert, Elizabeth Calvert, Eleanor Custis and Arianna Cal- 
vert, to be paid to the sons when of age, and to the daughters as soon as con- 
venient after the wife's decease. In case his wife remarried, two-thirds of the 
personal estate was devised to the children. 

When and as often as it should be necessary that there should be stone 
boundaries set up in the place of the old ones, it should be done at the ex- 
pense of the estate. 

The family pictures were devised to the wife during life, and after her 
decease to the eldest son living at the time of her death. He says : " Whereas 
I am justly entitled to a certain tract or manor of land called Ann Arundel 
Manor lying and being in Ann Arundel County which said manor or tract of 
land was devised to me by the late Right Honourable Charles Lord Baltimore 
deceased, for the recovery whereof suits are now depending in the General 
Court of Maryland between me and sundry persons tenants or possessors 
thereof. It is my will and desire . . . that my acting Executrix or Executor 
. . . . do endeavour to obtain and get legal and peaceable possession of the 
said manor ... in the name and for the use of my son Edward Henry Cal- 
vert." The suit was to be prosecuted at the expense of his estate, and if re- 
covered, the expenses to be repaid by son Edward Henry Calvert, and the sev- 
eral tracts of land in Prince George's County heretofore devised to Edward 
Henry Calvert were then to be given to the testator's son George Calvert. In 
case of the recovery of the manor to Edward Henry Calvert, the said Edward 
Henry's share of the personal estate, family pictures aforesaid excepted, was 
devised to the rest of the children. His wife was appointed executrix during 
her widowhood, and also guardian and trustee for the children. In event of 
her marriage or death, his friend Lancelot Jacques was appointed executor, to 
whom was to be given five per cent, on all monies received over and above the 
necessary charges of managing the estate. 

The will was witnessed by Sarah Allen, Abraham Fisher and Thoma.s 
Barry. 

A codicil dated March 30, 1780, revoked the bequest made to William 
Calvert, of land called the Hermitage, devising the same to John Calvert. Wit- 
nessed by W. Cooke, Ralph Forster and William Steuart. (Recorded in Prince 
George's County, Maryland.) 



JOHN PARKE CrSTIS, m. Feb. 3, 1774, 

dau. o: i 



son of Daniel Parke and ilartha (Dandiidge) 
Custis. 

b. 1753; 

d. Nov. 5, 1781. 



Eliza Parke, 
b. Aug. 21, 1776; 
d. Jan. 1, 1832; 
m. Mar. 20, 1796, 
Thomas Law. 



Eliza Law, 
b. Jan. 19, 1797; 
d. Aug. 10, 1822; 
m. .\pr. ."), 1817, 

Lloyd N. Rogers. 



Martha, 
b. Dec. 31, 1777; 
d. July 13, 1854; 
m. Jan. 6, 1795, 
Tliomas Peter. 



I 

Eleanor Parke, 
b. Mar. 21, 1779; 
d. 

m. Feb. 22, 1799, 
Lawrence Lewis. 



I 

George Washington Parke, 
b. Apr. 30, 1781; 
d. Oct. 10, 1857; 
m. Mary Fitzhugh. 



Ann Calvert, 
rr. William 



Ro « 



Martha Eliza Eleanor Peter, 
b. Jan. 20, 1796 ; d. Sept. 10, 1800. 

Columbia Washington Peter, 
b. Dec. 2, 1797; d. Dec. 3, 1820. 

John Parlce Custis Peter, 

b. Nov. 14, 1799; d. Jan. 19, 1848. 

m. Feb. 2, 1830, Elizabeth J. Henderson. 

George Washington Peter, 
b. Nov. 18, 1801; d. Dec. 10, 1877; 
m. Feb. 6, 1840, Jane Boyee. 

• .America Pinckney Peter, 

h. Oct. 12, 1803; d. Apr. 25, 1842; 

ni. June 27, 1826, Capt. Wm. G. Williams. 

Robert Thomas Peter, 
b. Nov. 7, 1806; d. Oct. 12, 1807. 

Martha Custis Castania Peter, 
b. Oct. 5, 1808; d. Apr. 5, 1809. 

Britannia Wellington Peter, 
b. Jan. 28, 1815; 
m. Dec. 8, 1842, Com. Beverly Kennon. 



Eleanor Parke Lewis, 
m. Col. Edward G. W. Butler. 

Angela Lewis, 
ni. Charles M. Conrad. 

Lorenzo Lewis, 
m. Esther Maria Coxe. 

Agnes Lewis, 
unm. 



Mary Randolph ( 
b."Oet. 1, ISO 
m. June 30, 1 , 



Geo. Washington Custis, Mary Custis. 
b. Sept. IC, 1832. 



Wm. II. 1 



m. 1783, DR. DAVID STUART, 

son of William and Sarah (Foote) Stuart, 
b. Aug. 3, 1753; 
d. Oct., 181— 



I 

Ariana 

b. Jan. 25, ITS 
aite. unm. 



I I 

William Sholto, Charles Calvert, 
b. Sept. 15, 1792; b. Feb. 9, 1794; 

unm. m. Cornelia L. Turberville. 



I I 

Eleanor Custis, Rosalie Eugenia, 
b. Dec. 8, 1796; b. Nov. 4, 1801; d. Oct. 19, 1886; 
d. unm. m. May 5, 1830, 

William G. Webster. 



l| 



Mary C. Stuart, 
m. Oct. 19, 1854, William M. Post, M.D. 

Ellen C. Stuart, 
m. Oct. 19, 1854, Rev. Addison B. Atkins. 

Sholto Turberville Stuart, 
b. May 25, 1821; d. Aug. 8, 1884; 
m. Nov. 8, 1859, Rosalie Eugenia Stuart. 



— William Eugene W'ebster, 
b. Aug. 28, 1831; d. June 27, 1862; 
m. Oct. 13, 1858, Fanny Lynn. 

— Calvert Stuart Webster, 
b. Oct., 1832; d. Aug. 9, 1862, unm 

— Washington Webster, d. y. 

— Rebecca Webster, d. y. 



Ji 



I I I 

£ Robert E. Mildred C. Anne Carter. 



i 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



Children of Benedict and Elizabeth Calvert : 



29 



29. Rebecca Calvert, born December 25, 1749; er jjed when only a few years old. 

30. Eleanor Calvert, died September 28, 1811; married (i) February 3, 1774, 

John Parke Custis; (2) in 1783, Dr. David Stuart. 

31. Charles Calvert, born October 3, 1756; died 1777, in England, where he had 

been sent to be educated; unmarried. 

32. Elizabeth Calvert, married June 15, 1780, Dr. Charles Steuart. 

33. Edward Henry Calvert, born November 7, 1766; died July 12, 1846; married 

March i, 1796, Elizabeth Biscoe. 

34. GEORGE CALVERT, born February 2, 1708; died January 28, 1838; married 

June II, 1799, Rosalie Eugenia Stier. 

35. Philip Calvert, died young. 

36. Leonard Calvert, died young. 

37. C^ciLius Calvert, died young. 

38. Robert Calvert, died young. 

39. John Calvert. 

40. William Calvert. "~ 

41. Ariana Calvert. 

The last three named survived their father, but died unmarried, the eldest 
not more than twenty. It is said that eight other children died in infancy. 



IV. 

30. Eleanor Cai.vert- (Benedict^), died September 28, 181 1, and was 
buried in Croom Church; married February 3, 1744, John Parke Custis, 
son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge (afterwards wife of General 
George Washington). John Parke Custis, born at the " White House," L-^cc 
Pamunky River, in New Kent County, Mar5dand, 1753 ; died November 5, 
1781.*^- In 1783 his widow married Dr. David Stuart, of Virginia, born August 
3' 1753; died October, i8t — ; son of William and Sarah (Foote) Stuart. 

Children of John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert : 

42. Eliza Parke Custis, born August 21, 1776; died January i, 1832: married 

March 20, 1796. Thomas Law. 

43. Martha Custis. born December 31. 1777; died July 13. 1854; married January 

6, 1795, Thomas Peter. 

44. Eleanor Parke Custis, born March 21, 1779; married February 22. 1799, Law- 

rence Lewis. 

45. George Washington Parke Custis, born April 30, 1781; died October 10, 

1857; married Mary Fitzhugh. 



61 Dec. 25, 1749. Born, Rebecca Calvert, daughter of the Honourable Benedict Calvert Esq' and 
Madam Calvert his wife ; and christened by the Rev* Mr. Malcolm on the fifth day of February following, 
the Rt Honourable the Lord Baltimore (by proxy) being Godfather and the Hon. Mrs. Ogle and Miss Ariana 
Brice Godmothers. (Parish Register St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, Md.) 

*** " A few davs ago died at Abingdon, near Alexandria shortly after his return from the siege of York 
and Gloucester, John Parke Custis esq., step son of his excellency general Washington The death of this 
amiable and accomplished gentleman in the bloom of life hath involved his relations and numerous friends in 
the deepest affliction." (News letter, from Baltimore, Nov. 20, 1781, Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia, 
Nov. 28, 1781.) 



30 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



Childrcu of Dr. L^avid Stuart and Eleanor (Calvert) Custis : 

(Said to have been sixteen in number, of whom seven are named.) 

46. Anne Calvert Stuart, born August 28, 1784; married William Robinson. 

47. Sakaii Sti'akt, born January 28, 1786; married Judge Obed Waite, of Virginia. 

48. Ariana Calvert Stuart, born January 25, 1789; died unmarried. 

49. William Sjiolto Stuart, born September 15, 1792; died unmarried. 

50. CiLARLES Calvert Stuart, born February 9, 1794; married Cornelia Lee Tur- 

berville. 

51. Eleanor Custis Stuart, born December 8, 1796; died unmarried. 

52. Rosalie Eugenia Stuart (the i6th), born November 4, 1801 ; died October 19, 

1886; married May 5, 1830, William Greenleaf Webster. 

32. Elizabeth Calvert- (Benedict^), married June 15, 1780, by Rev. 
Thomas John Claggett, to Dr. Charles Steuart, of Annapolis ;•"* born April 27, 
1750; died 1822; fourth child of Dr. George and Ann (Digges) Steuart, of that 
place.'^" 

Children of Dr. Charles Steuart and Elizabeth Calvert : 

53. George Calvert Steuart, married . 

54. Benedict Steuart, died unmarried. 

55. Edward Henry Steuart, born 1790; died June 3, 1858; married January 9, 

1812, Mary Willcox. 

56. Dr. Charles Steuart, died 1836; married November, 1814, Ann Fitzhugh 

Biscoe. 



33. Edward Henry Calvert- (Benedict^), born November 7, 1766; 
died July 12, 1846; married March i, I79(>, Elizabeth Biscoe, born Octo- 
ber 9, 1780; died March 26, 1857; daughter of George Biscoe and Ara- 
minta Carroll, nee Thompson, and granddaughter of Thomas Biscoe and 
Elizabeth Bennett. They lived in the family mansion, Mount Airy. 

Children of Edward Henry Calvert and Elizabeth Biscoe: 

57. Benedict Calvert, born 1796; died 1817. 

58. George Calvert, born August 4, 1798; died February 2, 1885; married Decem- 

ber I, 1840, Sarah Eleanor Hungerford. 

59. Edward Henry Calvert, born October 24, 1800; died without issue January 12, 

1880; married October 28, 1863, Mary Powell. 



^"Marriages by Rev. Mr. Thos. Jn" Claggett : Charles Steuart of Ann .Vrumlel C^'. Eliz. Calvert of 
Prince Georges C^. June 15, 1780. (Original returns in Maryland Historical Society.) 

'"' Gcf)rge .Steuart, of Rallachallan, married ^Tary Hume or Home. Their son. Dr. George Steuart, 
born in .Scotlantl, emigrated to Maryland, but returned to Scotland not long before his death ; buried at 
Kilmadocky. Will dated August 23, 1775. He married August 24, 1744, Anne Digges, by whom he had ten 
children. Dr. George Steuart was Member of Assembly for Annapolis, 1745 ; Justice Provincial Court, 1746 ; 
Judge of the Land Office (with Benj. Young), 1747; Judge of the Land Office (with Benedict Calvert), 1754; 
Secretary of Maryland, 1755; Judge, Court of Vice Admiralty, 1760; Member of the Commission on 
Boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1762 ; Mayor of Annapolis, 1763; Member Privy Council, 
1769 ; Judge, High Admiralty Court, 1773. 



y 



EDWARD HENRY Ci 



son of Benedict and Elizabeth ; 

b. Not. 7, 1766 ; 
d. July 12, 1846. 



I I 

Renedict, Georije, 

b. 1796; b. Aug. 4, 1798; 

d. 1817. d. Feb. 2, 1885 ; 

unm. m. Dec. 1, 1840, 

Sarah E. Hungerford. 



I I 

Edward Henry, Charles Frederick, 

b. October 24, 1800 ; b. Mar. 17, 1802 ; 

d. s. p. Jan. 12, 1880; d. Aug., 1868 ; 

m. Oct. 28, 1863, unm. 
Mary Powell. 



I 

Washington Custis, 
b. Sept. 27, 1804 ; 
d. Feb., 1868 ; 



Cfficelii; | 
b. Mi 
d. M. 



m. (1) Sophia O. Mulliken ; 
(2) Elizabeth G. Randolph 
(no surviving issue). 



I 



Rosa Calvert, 

b. Sept. 9, 1841 ; 

m. July 26, 1866, Richard Kearney. 

, Elizabeth Sophie Calvert, 
b. Mar. 7, 1843 ; 
m. Daniel Parke Peter. 

' Laura Louisa Calvert, 
b. Dec. 8, 1845 ; 
unm. 

I Sarah Stuart Calvert, 
b. Feb. 5, 1847 ; 
m. (1) Dr. nines ; 

(2) Thomas H. Huse. 

. George Edward Calvert, 
b. May 10, 1849 ; 
m. Susan Swann. 

. Eleanora (Jalvert, 
b. Jan. 1, 1851 ; 
unm. 

■ Ella Calvert, 

b. June 18, 1852 ; 
d. Sept. 9, 1852. 

. KUa Caicelius Calvert, 
b. Sept. 25, 1854. 

. Kmnia Eugenia Calvert, 
b. Jan. 17, 1857. 

. Araniinta Carroll Calvert, 
b. Oct. 31, 1860 ; 
m. Dr. Thomas C. Chew. 

■ Roberta Lee Calvert, 

b. Jan. 27, 1803 ; 

m. 1887, T. C. Judkins. 



I 

John Calvert, 

b. Mar. 9, 1855 ; 
m. Oct. 26, 1881, 

Victoria Baltzell Elliott. 



CaeeeliuR Baltimore Calvert, 
b. Sept. 11, 1882. 



1796, ELIZABETH BISCOE, 

dau. of George and Araminta (Carroll) Biscoe ; 
b. Oct. 9, 1780 ; 
d. Mar. 26, 1857. 



I 

Elizabeth, 
1809 ; b. Jan. 8, 1809 ; 

, 1869 ; d. Aug. 2, 1842 ; 

I, 1854, unm. 

tockton Rush. 



I I 

William Beans, 
b. Dec. 2, 1813 ; 
d. Oct. 18, 1876 ; 
m. May 11, 1838, 

Mary Harriet Hughes, 



Araminta, 


Octavius 


Augustus, 


Juliana M. A., 


d. y. 


b. 1817 




b. Jan. 11, 1819 ; 




d. 1818. 




d. Mar. 21, 1856 ; 
unm. 



I 

Eleanora Adela, 
b. Jan. 12, 1821 ; 
d. July 15, 1902. 



■ert, 

e R. Wheeler ; 
Agnes Mahoney. 



. Clara Cecelia Calvert, 
b. Jan. 10, 1839 ; 
m. Judge D. F. Mitchell. 

Marion Glorvina Calvert, 
b. Apr. 7, 1841 ; 
m. June 15, 1866, Thomas Wilson. 

Emma Eugenia Calvert, 
b. Feb. 21, 1843 ; 
d. 1848. 

William Henry White Calvert, 
b. June 1, 1850 ; 
m. Cornelia Boullemet. 



Finley Heme Calvert, 
b. Nov. 16, 1853 ; 
m. Sadie Perrine (widow). 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 31 



60. Charles Frederick Calvert, born March 17, 1802; died August, 1868; un- 

married. 

61. Washington Custis Calvert, born September 27, 1804; died February, 1868; 

married (i) Sophia O. MuUiken; no children survived; married (2) 
Elizabeth G. Randolph; died without issue. 

62. C^ciLius Baltimore Calvert, born March 28, 1806; died March 13, 1901; 

unmarried. 

63. Elizabeth Calvert, born January 8, 1809; died August 2, 1842; unmarried. 

64. John Calvert, born January 8, 1809; died March 9, 1869; married June i, 1854. 

Julia Stockton Rush. 

65. William Beans Calvert, born December 2, 1813; died October 18, 1876; mar- 

ried May II, 1838, Mary Harriet Hughes. 

66. Araminta Carroll Calvert, died young. 

67. Octavius Augu.stus Calvert, born 1817; died 1818. 

68. Juliana Margaret Anna Calvert, born January 11, 1819; died March 21, 

1856; unmarried. 

69. Eleanora Adela Calvert, born January 12, 1821; died July 15, 1902.'! 

34. George Calvert- (Benedict^), born at Mt. Airy, Prince George's 
County, Maryland, February 2, 1768; died January 28, 1838,''- at Riversdale, in 
the same county; married June 11, 1799, Rosalie Eugenia Stier, born February 
16, 1778; died March 13, 1821 ; daughter of Henri Joseph Stier and Marie 
Louise Peeters, of Antwerp. George Calvert purchased the " Riversdale " 
estate, about one mile from Bladensburg, Maryland, and in 1802 erected the 
mansion thereon. 

WILL OF GEORGE CALVERT. 1838. 

On this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and thirty five I George Calvert of Prince George's County of Maryland do make this 
my last Will and Testament, To wit: First I do give and bequeath to my sons George 
Henry Calvert and Charles Benedict Calvert all the property real personal and mixed 
that I may die possessed of or that 1 may hereafter have a right to after the payment of 
all just claims against my estate to be equally divided between them the said George 
Henry Calvert and Charles B. Calvert. 

Secondly and lastly I do appoint my two sons George H. Calvert and Charles B. 
Calvert Executors of this my last Will and Testament. 

Geo Calvert, [seal] 

Witnesses, William Beckett, Henry L. Carlton, William W. Hall. The will was 
proved February 3, 1838. (Prince George's County Wills, Liber i, folio 89.) 



"With the death of Eleanora Adela Calvert at Mt. Airy, July 15, 1902, the last survivor of the old 
generation passed away. On the following Thanksgiving day the furniture was sold at a public sale held in 
the house at Mt. Airy. The family portraits and silver were sold in the auction rooms of C. G. Sloan & Co., 
in Washington, D. C, February 11, 1903, at which sale the portrait of Benedict Leonard Calvert, fourth Lord 
Baltimore, was bought by R. Winder Johnson. The remainder of the Mt. Airy estate, amounting to about 
a thousand acres, with the old house, was sold a few months later, and passed from the possession of the 
family. 

"From inscriptions on gravestones at Riversdale: Rosalie E. Calvert, died March 13, 1821, aged 43. 
George Calvert died Jany. 28, 1838, aged 70, The National Intelligencer of Washington, D. C, under date 
of March 15, 1821, contains this notice : " Mrs. Rosalie Eugenia Calvert, wife of George Calvert, and 
daughter of Henry Joseph Steer, of Antwerp, died at Riversdale, near Bladensburg, Maryland, in the 44th 
year of her age." 



32 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

Children of George Calvert and Rosalie Eugenia Stier: 

70. CAROLINE MARIA CALVERT, born July 15, 1800; died November 25, 

1842; married June 19, 1823, Thomas Willing Morris. '^^ (See Morris 
Record.) 

71. George Henry Calvert, born January 2, 1803: died without issue May 24, 1889; 

n)arried May 8, 1829, Elizabeth Steuart, born 1802; died March 27, 1897; 
daughter of Dr. James Steuart, of Baltimore, '^^ and Rebecca Sprigg 
his wife, and granddaughter of Dr. George Steuart, of Annapolis. 
George Henry Calvert lived in Newport, R. I., and was the author of 
several books. 

T2. Marie Louise Calvert, died 1809, aged five years. 

T2>- Rosalie Eugenia Calvert, born October 19, 1806; died January, 1845; mar- 
ried November 11, 1830, Charles Henry Carter. 

74. Charles Benedict Calvert, born August 23, 1808; died May 12, 1864; married 

June 6, 1839, Charlotte Augusta Norris. 

75. Henry J. Albert Calvert, died 1820, aged nine years and nine months. 

76. Marie Louise Calvert, died 1813, aged one year and five months. 

"JT. Julia Calvert, born January 31, 1814; died June 8, 1888; married May 7, 1833, 
Dr. Richard Henry Stuart. 

78. Amelia Isabella Calvert, died 1820, aged two years and nine months. 

42. Eliza Parke Custis^ (Eleanor-, Benedict^), born August 21, 1776; 
died January i, 1832; married March 20, 1796,'^^ Thomas Law. 

Child of Thomas Law and Eliza Parke Custis : 

79. Eliza Law, born January 19, 1797; died August 10, 1822; married April 5. 1817, 

at Washington, D. C, Lloyd Nicholas Rogers."*^ 

43. Martha Custis'^ (Eleanor-, Benedict^), born at Mt. Vernon, Decem- 
ber 31, 1777; died at "Tudor Place," Georgetown, D. C, July 13, 1854;" 

'^"Married at Riversdale, 19th inst., Thos. W. Morris, of Philadelphia, to Caroline Maria, eldest 
daughter of George Calvert, Esq., of Riversdale, Pr. Geo. Co., Md." — Baltimore Ainerican and Commercial 
Advertiser, June 26, 1823. 

^* " Married at Baltimore on Tuesday morning by the Rev. Dr. Wyatt George Henrj' Calvert Esq. 
to Elizabeth Steuart youngest daughter of Dr. James Steuart." — Baltimore American and Commercial 
Advertiser, Saturday, May 12, 1829. 

■fS " Married on the 20th instant at the seat of David .Stewart Esq. Thomas Law, youngest son of 
the late Bishop of Carlisle, to Miss Custis, granddaughter of the Lady of the President of the United States." 
— Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, March 28, 1796. 

" Died at Mr. J. A. Chevallier's, in Richmond, Va., on Saturday night, Mrs. Eliza Parke Custis, 
granddaughter of the late Mrs. General Washington, aged 55." — National Intelligencer, Saturday, January 7, 
1832. 

Articles of separation between Mr. and Mrs. Law were signed August 10, 1B04 ; after which date she was 
known as Mrs. Eliza Parke Custis. 

'"' " Eliza my only child was born the ig of JanO' 1797. . . . .She was married April 5, 1817 to Lloyd N. 
Rogers . . . .She died Aug. 10, 1822." (Bible of Mrs. Eliza Parke Custis — Mrs. Law). 

" Married in Washington on Saturday by the Rev. Mr. McCormick, Lloyd N. Rogers Esq. of Baltimore 
to Miss Eliza Law, daughter of Thos. Law Esq. of that City." — Federal Gazette, Tuesday, April 8, 1817. 

■""Died on Thursday morning the 13th instant at Tudor Place, Georgetown Heights, D. C, after 
a short illness, Martha Custis Peter, relict of the late Thomas Peter Esq., in the 77th year of her age. Mrs. 
Peter was the last survivor but one of the family of the wife of Washington. We learn that her remains will be 
conveyed early this morning to the family grave yard near Seneca Mills, Montgomery County, Md." {National 



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married at "Hope Park," January 6, 1795, Thomas Peter, of *' Tudur i'lace," 
Heights of Georgetown, born January 4, 1769. 

Children of Thomas Peter and Martha Custis : 

80. Martha Eliz-At-^leanor Peter, born Januarj' 20, 1796; died Scpteinl)ei- 10, 

1800. 

81. Columbia Washington Peter, born December 2, 1797; died December 3, 1820. 

82. John Parke Custis Peter, born November 14, 1799; died January 19, 1848; 

married February 2, 1830, Elizabeth Jane Henderson. 

83. George Washington Peter, born November 18, 1801; died December 10, 

1877; married February 6, 1840, Jane Boyce. 

84. America Pinckney Peter, born October 12, 1803; died April 25, 1842; married 

June 27, 1826, Capt. William George Williams, U. S. A. 

85. Robert Thomas Peter, born November 7, 1806; died October 12, 1807. 

86. Martha Custis Castania Peter, born October 5, 1808; died April 5, 1809. 

87. Britannia Wellington Peter, born Tudor Pkce, January 28, 1815; living in 

1905; married December 8, 1842, Commodore Beverley Kennon, 
U. S. N. 

44. Eleanor Parke Custis''* (Eleanor-, Benedict^), born March 21, 1779; 
married February 22, 1799, at Mt. Vernon, Lawrence Lewis, nephew of Gen- 
eral Washington. 

Children of Lawrence Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis : 

88. Eleanor Parke Lewis, married Col. Edward G. W. Butler, U. S. A. 

89. Angela Lewis, married Charles M. Conrad. 
go. Lorenzo Lewis, married Esther Maria Coxe. 

91. Agnes Lewis, died unmarried. 

45. George Washington Parke Custis-^ (Eleanor-, Benedict^), born 
April 30, 1781 ; died October 10, 1857; married Mary Eitzhugh. 

Child of George Washington Parke Custis and Mary Eitzhugh : 

92. Mary Randolph Custis, born October i, 1806; married June 30, 1831, Gen. 

Robert E. Lee. 

50. Charles Calvert Stuart- (Eleanor-, Benedict^, born February 9, 
1794; married Cornelia Lee Turberville. 

Children of Charles Calvert Stuart and Cornelia Lee Turberville : 

93. Mary C. Stuart, married October 19, i854,"8 William M. Post, M.D., of 

South Carolina. 



Intelligencer, julv 15, 1854.) Martha Parke Peter was a legatee of General Washington. Having divided 
his residuary estate into twenty-three equal parts, he says : "To Eliz. Parke Law, Martha Parke Peter and 
Eleanor Parke Lewis I give and bequeath three other parts, that is a part to each of them. ■' (Supplied by 
John Calvert, of Philadelphia.) 

T8'. Married at Chantilly, Fairfax County (Va.), on the 19th inst., by the Rev. R. Post, D.D., of 
Charleston (S. C), William M. Post, M.D., of South Carolina, to Mary C. Stuart. At the same time and 



34 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



94. Ellen C. Stuart, married October 19, 1854, Rev. Addison B. Atkins. 

95. Sholto TuRBERViLi.E Stuart, born May 25, 1821; died August 8, 1884; mar- 

ried November 8, 1859, Rosalie Eugenia Stuart. 

52. Rosalie Eugenia Stuart'* (Eleanor-, Benedict^), born November 4, 
1801 ; died October 19, 1886; married May 5, 1830, William Greenleaf Webster, 
son of Dr. Noah and Rebecca (Greenleaf) Webster. 

Children of William G. Webster and Rosalie Eugenia Stuart : 

96. William Eugene Webster, born August 28, 1831; died June 27, 1862; married 

October 13, 1858, Fanny Lynn. 

97. Calvert Stuart Webster, born October, 1832; died August 9, 1862, unmar- 

ried. 

98. Washington Webster, died young. 

99. Redecca Webster, died young. 

53. George Calvert Steuart^ (Elizabeth-, Benedict^), of Baltimore 
County, Maryland, married . 

Children of George Calvert Steuart : 

100. Eliza Ann Steuart. 

Id. Charles Cecilius Steuart, born October 31, 1822; died November 12, 1855; 
married December 22, 1842, Mary Cassin Steuart. 

55. Edward Henry Steuart' (Elizabeth^, Benedict^), born 1790; died 
June 3, 1858; married January 9, 1812, Mary Willcox, who died August 19, 
1840. 

Children of Edward Henry Steuart and Mary Willcox : 

102. Charles J. Steuart, married Eliza Thomas Willcox. They had a son 

Thomas, who married Cora . who when divorced married 

Charles Augustine Steuart. 

103. William Henry Steuart, born 1815; died about 1880, unmarried; buried at 

Annapolis. 

104. Eliza Ann Steuart, married Isaac Hopkins. 

105. Edward Henry Calvert Steuart, unmarried. 

106. Mary Cassin Steuart, married Charles Cecilius Steuart. 

107. Benedict Steuart, unmarried. 

108. James Steuart, unmarried. 

109. Elizabeth J. Steuart, unmarried. 
no. George Steuart, unmarried. 

111. Sara H. Steuart, unmarried. 

112. David Steuart, unmarried. 

113. Eleanor Steuart, married (i) Nicholas Bryan; (2) Hines. 



place, by the Rev. R. T. Brown, the Rev. Addison B. Atkins, of Philadelphia, to Ellen C. Stuart, both 
daughters of the late Charles Calvert Stuart, Esq." — National Intelligertcer, Washington, Oct. 27, 1854. 

Attention is directed to the different spelling of the names Steuart, of Maryland, and Stuart, of 
Virginia. Elizabeth Calvert married Charles Steuart ; her sister Eleanor Calvert married Dr. David 
Stuart, of Virginia. Neither should be Stewart. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



35 



56. Dr. Charles Steuart^ (Elizabeth-, Benedict^), of Pemberton, West 
River, died 1836 (will proved at Annapolis, December 13, 1836). He mar- 
ried by license dated November i, 181-I, Ann Fitzhugh Biscoe, who died March 
26, 1822 ; '» daughter of George Biscoe and Araminta (Thompson) Carroll. 

Children of Dr. Charles Steuart and Ann Fitzhugh Biscoe : 

114. Dr. William Frederick Steu.\rt, born 1815; died December 10, 1889; mar- 

ried February 27. 1840, Ann Hall. 

115. George Biscoe Steuart, born October, 1817; died November 12, 1884; mar- 

ried, November 27, i860, Louisa Ann Darnall. 

116. Charles Calvert Steuart, born August 10, 1819; died April 28, 1896; mar- 

ried (i) March 26, 1846. Elizabeth Frances Steele; (2) April 21, 1853, 
Hannah M. M. Murray. 

117. Benedict Steuart, died young. 



58. George Calvert^ (Edward Henry^, Benedict^), born August 4, 
1798; died February 2, 1885; married December i, 1840, Sarah Eleanor Hun- 
gerford ; born November 22, 1823; died April 16, 1868. 

Children of George Calvert and Sarah Eleanor Hungerford: 

118. Rosa Calvert, born September 9, 1841 : married July 26, 1866, Richard Kear- 

ney, of Prince George County, Md. ; five children. 

119. Elizabeth Sophie Calvert, born March 7, 1843; married Daniel Parke 

Peter; two children. 

120. Laura Louisa Calvert, born December 8, 1845; unmarried. 

121. Sarah Stuart Calvert, born February 5. 1847; married (i) Dr. Hines; three 

children; (2) Thomas H. Huse. 

122. George Edward Calvert, born May 10, 1849: married Susan Swann. 

123. Eleanora Calvert, born January i, 1851; unmarried. 

124. Ella Calvert, born June 18, 1852; died September 9, 1852. 

125. Ella Cecelius Calvert, born September 25, 1854. 

126. Emma Eugenia Calvert, born January 17, 1857. 

127. Araiminta Carroll Calvert, born October 31, i860; married Dr. Thomas C. 

Chew. 

128. Roberta Lee Calvert, born January 27, 1863; married 1887, T. C. Judkins. 



64. John Calvert^ (Edward Henry-, Benedict^), born January 8, 1809; 
died March 9, 1869; married June i, 1854, Julia Stockton Rush, born July 21, 
1826; died January 20, 1858. 



'9 " Died on the 26th of March at Pemberton, West River, Mrs. Ann Fitzhugh Steuart (the consort of 
Dr. Charles C. Steuart) after a painful illness of 9 days. She was exemplary in tlie duties of wife mother 
friend and neighbour. Her loss is irreparable to her husband and four small children, and her death severely 
felt by her numerous friends and family connexions." — Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, 
April II, 1822. 

Dr. Steuart's will was signed Cha" Steuart. The C, in the notice is an error. 



36 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Chiklrcn of John Calvert and Julia Stockton Rush: 

129. John Calvert, born March 9, 1855; married October 26, 1881, Victoria Baltzell 

Elliott. 

Child: 
i. Cecilius Baltimore Calvert, born September 11, 1882. 

130. Madison Rush Calvert, born January 12, 1858; married (i) August 4, 1881, 

Josephine R. Wheeler; (2) Margaret Agnes Mahoney. 

Child: 
i. Catharine Rush Calvert, born December 25, 1S92; died Febru- 
ary 14, 1895. 

65. William Beans Calvert^ (Edward Henry', Benedict^), born De- 
cember 2, 1813; died October, 1876; married May 11, 1838, Mary Har- 
riet Hughes, born April 29, 1820. 

Children of William B. Calvert and Mary Harriet Hughes: 

131. Clara Cecilia Calvert, born January 10, 1839; married Judge D. F. Mitchell; 

four children. 

132. Marian Glorvina Calvert, born April 7. 1841; married June 15, 1866, 

Thomas Wilson. 

Child: 
i. Calvert Wilson, born April 18, 1867. 

133. Emma Eugenia Calvert, born February 21, 1843; died 1848. 

134. William Henry White Calvert, born June i, 1850; married Cornelia Boul- 

lemet; four children. 

135. FiNLEY Herne Calvert, born November 16, 1853; married Sadie Perrine, 

widow. 

y^i- Rosalie Eugenia Calvert-^ (George-, Benedict^), born at Rivers- 
dale, October 19, 1806; died at Goodwood, Prince George County, January, 
1845; married by Bishop White, in Philadelphia, November 11, 1830, Charles 
Henry Carter, of Virginia, born 1804; died July, 1872. 

Children of Charles Henry Carter and Rosalie E. Calvert : 

136. Eugenia Carter, born February 3, 1832; married Frank Hall. 

Children: 

i. Carter Hall, 

ii. Ella Hall, 

iii. Clarence Hall, died, 

iv. Nicholas Hall. 

V. Robert Hall, 

vi. Rosalie Eugenia Hall, 

vii. Julian Hall. 

137. Alice Carter, born April 3, 1833: died May 20, 1905; married December 3, 

1851, Oden Bowie. 

138. Bernard Carter, born July 20, 1834; married April 20, 1858, Mary Buckner 

Ridgely. 



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139. Ella Carter, born December 10, 1836; died September 27, 1893; married June 

18, 1863, Samuel Knox George. 

140. Annette Carter, married Henry Brogden. 

Children: 
i. Mary Brogden. 
ii. Stevenson Brogden. 

141. Mildred Carter, born October, 1838; unmarried. 

142. Mary Randolph Carter, born 1843; died 1870; married Frederick George 

Bier. 

Child: 
i. Annette Carter Bier, married Arthur White. 

74. Charles Benedict Calvert^ (George^, Benedict^), born at Riv- 
ersdale, August 23, 1808; died there, May 12, 1864; married June 6, 1839, 
Charlotte Augusta Norris, daughter of WiUiam and Sarah H. (Martin) Norris. 
She died December 7, 1876. 

Children of Charles Benedict Calvert and Charlotte A. Norris. 

143. Ella Calvert, born March 20, 1840; died February 17, 1902; married Septem- 

ber 3, 1861. Duncan G. Campbell. 

144. George Henry Calvert, born November 29, 1841; married December 26, 

1872, Frances Seybolt. 

145. Charles Baltimore Calvert, born February 5, 1843; married 1866, Eleanor 

Mackubin. 

146. William Norris Calvert born October 12, 1845; died September 7, 1889; 

married March, 1888, Laura Hunt. 

Child: 
i. Rosalie Eugenia Calvert. 

147. Eugene Stier Calvert, born December 19, 1846; died November 30, 1894; 

unmarried. 

148. Jules van Havre Calvert, born October 30, 1848; died August 4, 1849. 

yy. Julia Calvert^ (George^, Benedict^), born at Riversdale, January 
31, 1814; died at Cedar Grove, King George County, Virginia, June 8, 1888; 
married at Riversdale, May 7, 1833, Dr. Richard Henry Stuart, born at Pope's 
Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia, May 31, 1808; died at Cedar Grove, 
May 14, 1889; son of Richard and Margaret Stuart. 

Children of Dr. Richard H. Stuart and Julia Calvert: 

149. Rosalie Eugenia Stuart, born July 23, 1835; married November 8, 1859, 

Sholto Turberville Stuart (No. 95). 

150. Margaret Stuart, born March 29, 1837: died February 16, 1893; married 

November 23, 1865, Robert W. Hunter. 

151. Julia Calvert Stuart, born September 16, 1838; died February 12. 1861 ; 

married May 23, i860, Dr. E. Lee Jones. 

Child: 
i. Julian Stuart Jones, born February 6, 1861 ; married Septem- 
ber 12, 1903, Zayde Ethel Pope. 



38 THE ANCESTRY OF 

152. Mary Stuart, born January 30, 1840; died December 5, 1859; unmarried. 

153. Ada Stl'akt, born October zy, 1841 ; married (i) September 9, 1863, Capt. 

William W. Randolph; "^" (2) Robert L. Robb. Two children by second 
marriage. 

154. Caroline Calvert Stuart, born February 2, 1844; died October 29, 1872; 

married October 4, 1871, Col. F. W. M. Holliday, of Winchester, Va. 

Child: 
i. Carrie Stuart Holliday. died in infancy. 

155. Richard Stuart, born October 19, 1S45; died May 18, 1862. 

156. Calvert Stuart, born February 11, 1848; died May 28, 1862. 

82. John Parke Custts Peter'* (Martha Custis^, Eleanor-, Benedict^), 
born November 14, 1799; died January 19, 1848; married February 2, 1830. 
Elizabeth Jane Henderson. 

Children of John 1\ C. Peter and Elizabeth J. Henderson. 

157. Sarah Elizabeth Peter, married Slaymaker. 

158. Thomas Peter, married Elizabeth Peter; seven children. 

159. Martha Custis Peter, married — — Gibbs. 

160. John Parke Custis Peter. 

161. James Henderson Peter, died i860; unmarried. 

162. Jane Peter, married McMullin. 

163. Britannia Peter. 

164. Parke Peter. 

83. George Washington Peter* (Martha Custis^, Eleanor^, Benedict^), 
born November 18, 1801; died December 10, 1877; married February 6, 1840, 
Jane Boyce. 

Children of George Washington Peter and Jane Boyce : 

165. Mary Peter, died unmarried. 

166. Gabriella Peter, married 1868, James Mackubin, of Howard County, Md. 

Children: 

i. Ella Mackubin. 

ii. George Mackubin, married. 1900, Maud Tayloe Perrin. 
iii. Parke Custis Mackubin; killed by an accident, 1903. 
iv. Emily Boyce Mackubin. 

V. Mildred Lee Mackubin. 

167. Parke Custis Peter, killed by an accident, 1861. 

168. William Boyce Peter, married 1878, Ella H. Mercer, of West River; two 

daughters. 

84. America Pinckney Peter* (Eliza Parke Custis\ Eleanor'-, Bene- 
dict^), born October 12, 1803; died April 25, 1842; married June 2"], 1826, Cap- 
tain William George Williams, U. S. A., who was killed in Mexico, September 
21, 1846. 



80 Child : William Welford Randolph, born July 16, 1865. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



39 



Children of William G. Williams and America P. Peter : ^'^ 

169. Martha Custis Williams, married S. P. Carter, U. S. N. 

170. Columbia Williams, married Abel Upsher. 

171. Laurence Williams, U. S. A.; died 1879; married Sarah Law. 

Child: 
i. George Custis Williams. 

172. Kate Williams, died 1864; married John Henry Upsher, U. S. N. 

Children: 

i. Custis Upsher, married Trenchard. 

ii. George Upsher. 

iii. Kate Upsher, married William H. Hunt, 
iv. Henry Upsher, died 1863; unmarried. 

173. William Orten Williams, died 1863; unmarried. He was executed during 

the war. His unfortunate fate is told in the United Service Magazine 
for March, 1881, under the title, " A Remarkable Episode in the Late 
War," which is correct as to facts, but the names are sometimes at 
fault. 



87. Britannia Wellington Peter'* (Martha Custis'', Eleanor-, Bene- 
dict^), born Tudor Place, January 28, 1815; married December 8, 1842, 
Commodore Beverly Kennon, U. S. N., who was killed by the explosion of a 
gun on the ship Princeton, in 1844. 

Child of Beverly Kennon and Britannia W. Peter: 

174. Martha Custis Kennon, married Armistead Peter. 

Children: 

i. Walter Gibson Peter. 

ii. Armistead Peter, 
iii. Beverly Kennon Peter, 
iv. Frieland Peter. 

V. Agnes Peter. 

92. Mary Randolph Custis* (G. W. P. Custis^ Eleanor-, Benedict^), 
born October i, 1806; married June 30, 1831, General Robert Edward Lee, 
born January 19, 1807; died October 12, 18^2. 

Children of General Robert Edward Lee and Mary R. Custis : 

175. George Washington Custis Lee, born September 16. 1832. 

176. Mary Custis Lee. 

177. William H. Fitzhugh Lee. 

178. Eleanor Agnes Lee. 

179. Robert E. Lee. 

180. Mildred C. Lee. 

181. Anne Carter Lee, died October .30, 1862. 



81 Supplied by John Calvert, of Philadelphia. 



40 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



94. Ellen C. Stuakt'' (Charles C. Stuart^, Eleanor-, Benedict^), died in 
Washington, D. C, May 31, 1896; married October 19, 1854, Rev. Addison B. 
Atkins, D.D. 

Children of Addison B. Atkins and Ellen C. Stuart : 

182. Addison B. Atkins, married twice. 

183. Cornelia Lee Atkins. 

184. Ellen Atkins. 

95. SiiOLTO TuRBERViLLE Stuart'* (Charles C. Stuart'', Eleanor^, Bene- 
dict'), born May 25, 1821 ; died August 8, 1884; married November 8, 1859, ^t 
Cedar Grove, King George's County, Virginia, Rosalie Eugenia Stuart, born 
Fredericksburg, Virginia, July 23, 1835; daughter of Dr. Richard Henry and 
Julia (Calvert) Stuart. 

Children of Sholto Turberville Stuart and Rosalie Eugenia Stuart : 

185. Marv Stuart, born August 22, i860; died September 28, 1889; married Novem- 

ber 16, 1886, William D. Grymes. 

Children: 

i. Rosalie Eugenia Grymes, born August 17, 1887. 
ii. Mary Stuart Grymes, born September 8, 1889. 

186. Julia Stuart, born April 17, 1863; died June 14, 1864. 

187. Cornelia Lee Stuart, born May 15, 1865; married October 29, 1889, Allen 

Smith. 

Children: 
i. Rosalie Eugenia Smith, born February 11, 1891. 
ii. Columbia Jacqueline Smith, born September 23, 1893. 
iii. Laura Stuart Smith, born March 17, 1898. 

188. Richard Henry Stuart, born July 8, 1867. 

189. Rosalie Eugenia Stuart, born April 2, 1869. 

190. Charles Calvert Stuart, born December 5, 1870. 

191. Caroline Calvert Stuart, born January i, 1873; married October 18, 1898, 

Alonzo Bertram Davis. 

Child: 
i. Eugenia Stuart Davis, born April 3c, 1904. 

192. George Calvert Stuart, born August 22. 1875. 

193. Margaret Stuari, born July 18, 1877. 

194. Marie Louise Stuart, born June 15, 1881; died August 6, 1890. 

96. William Eugene Webster* (Rosalie E. Stuart^ Eleanor", Bene- 
dict'), born August 28, 1831 ; died June 27, 1862; married October 13, 1858, 
Fanny Lynn , of Cumberland, Maryland. 

Children of William Eugene Webster and Fanny Lynn : 

195. Rosalie Eugenia Stuart WERSTER,born August 2, 1859; marri<?d June 5, 1883, 

Daniel Randall Magruder, of Annapolis, born January 6, 1835. 



ROSALIE A[ ORRIS JOHNSON 41 



Children: 
i. Rosalie Stuart Magruder, born iMarch y, 1884. 
ii. Daniel Randall Magruder, born November 15, 1885. 
iii. Eugene Webster Magruder, born January 27, 1888. 
iv. Cecilius Calvert Magruder, born December 26, 1893. 

196. Rerecca Lynn Webster, born June 2;^, 1861. 



loi. Charles Cecilius Steuart* (George C. Steuart", Elizabetlr, Benc- 
dict^J, born October 31, 1822; died November 12, 1855; married Decem- 
ber 22, 1842, Mary Cassin Stenart, daughter of Edward Henry Steuart and Mary 
Willcox. She was Hving in 1904. 

Children of Charles Cecilius Steuart and Mary Cassin Steuart: 

197. Charles Augustine Steuart, married Mrs. Cora Steuart, divorced wife of 

Thomas Steuart. 

198. Mary Rosalie Steuart, married Gordon Winslow Green, nephew of Mrs. 

Reverdy Johnson, of Baltimore; six children. 

199. Dr. George Calvert Steuart, married Nannie Kirby. 

200. Richard Sprigg Steuart, married Mary Bosley. 

201. Edward David Steuart, unmarried (1904). 

202. James Henry Steuart, married Leach. 

203. Thomas Risteau Steuart, married Mrs. Shearer. 



114. Dr. William Frederick Steuart* (Dr. Charles Steuart\ Eliza- 
beth-, Benedict^), born 1815; died December 10, 1889, at 120 West Fourth 
Street, Baltimore; married February 27, 1840, Ann Hall, died November 
4, 1887; daughter of Henry Augustus and Mary (Stevenson) Hall, of West 
River. Dr. Steuart was Surgeon, C. S. A., on stafif of General R. E. Lee; resi- 
dent physician of Maryland Hospital for the Insane, Baltimore. 

Children of Dr. William Frederick Steuart and Ann Hall : 

204. Capt. Harry Augustus Steuart, C.S.A., born 1841; died 1861. 

205. Charles Steuart, died in infancy. 

206. William Frederick Steuart, of Brunswick, Ga., died 1902; married (i) Louisa 

du Bignon. died without issue; (2) Gould; four children. 

207. Anne Steuart, died in infancy. 

208. Louis Edward Steuart. 

209. Charles Steuart (2d), died in infancy. • 

210. Richard Estep Steuart, married Isabel Murphy. 

211. Mary Stevenson Steuart, of Baltimore, born 1851; died 1897; married Sep- 

tember, 1874. William Henry Purcell, from Dublin, Ireland. 

212. Eleanor Steuart, married (i) John Watson: (2) Lawrence Compton, from 

whom she was divorced and resumed the name of Watson. 

213. George Biscoe Steuart. 

214. Cecilius Calvert Steuart, born July 29, i860; is a physician in Baltimore; 

married Anne Purcell. 



42 THE ANCESTRY OF 

115. George Biscoe Steuart'' (Dr. Charles^*, Elizabeth-, Benedict^), born 
October, 1817; died November 12, 1884, at " Woodlawn," Anne Arundel 
County, Maryland; married November 2y, i860, at Portland Manor, Louisa 
Ann Darnall, daughter of Henry Bennett Darnall and Sarah Ann Blandford. 

Children of George Biscoe Steuart and Louisa Ann Darnall : 

215. Rose Ann Steuart; unniarried. 

216. Maria Louisa Steuart, married Philip Simms Bowling. 

217. George Hume Steuart, physician in Baltimore; unmarried. 

218. Henrv Darnall Steuart; unmarried. 

219. EsTEP Hall Steuart; unmarried. 

220. Virginia Francta (" Jeanette ") Steuart; unmarried. 

221. Philip Eugene Steuart: unmarried. 

222. Edward Calvert Steu.vrt; unmarried. 



116. Charles Calvert Steuart^ (Dr. Charles Steuart^ Elizabeth-, Bene- 
dict^), of Pemberton ; born at Pemberton, West River, Maryland, August 
10, 1819; died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, April 28, 1896; 
married (i) March 26, 1846, Elizabeth Frances Steele, died September 3, 1851 ; 
daughter of Henry Maynadier Steele and Maria Lloyd Key, daughter of Francis 
Scott Key; married (2) April 21, 1853, Hannah Margaret Maynadier Murray, 
born March i, 1826; died March 14, 1894; daughter of James Murray, of Acton, 
near Annapolis, and Charlotte Radclifife. 

Children of Charles Calvert Steuart and Elizabeth Francis Steele : 

223. Charles Calvert Steuart, died in infancy. 

224. Alice Key Steuart, married July 14, 1885. John Bartow Montell, of As- 

toriaj N. Y. 

Children of Charles Calvert Steuart and Hannah M. M. Murray : 

225. James Murray Steuart, born 1854; died in infancy. 

226. Helen Steuart, born 1856; died 1882. 

227. Sarah Murray Steuart (many years younger than her sister). 



137. Alice Carter* (Rosalie Eugenia", George-, Benedict^), born April 
3, 1833; died May 20, 1905; married December 3, 1851, Oden Bowie. 

Children of Oden Bowie and Alice Calvert: 

228. Alice Bovvte, born July 4. 1852; died September 19, 1808; married November 16, 
1876, S. Owen W. Roberts. 

Children: 
i. Oden Bowie Roberts, born March 28, 1879. 
ii. Clarence Meredith Roberts, born September i, 1880. 
iii. Alice Maud Roberts, born September 18, 1882. 
iv. Josephine Roberts, born March 28, 1885. 
V. Maynard Roberts, born March 2, 1889. 



I 



ROSALIE MORRIS TORN SON 



43 



229. William Duckett Bowie, born July 26, 1854; married November, 1890, Marie 

Bennett. 

230. Oden Bowie, born May 9. 1856; died August 20, 1904; unmarried. 

231. Calvert Bowie, born April 5, i860: died April 19, 1861. 

232. Annette Carter Bowie, born March 8, 1863; married June 8, 1887, Eugene 

Roberts. 

Children: 
i. Alice Oden Roberts, born September 22, 1888. 
ii. Joseph William Roberts, born October 22, 1893. 
iii. Grace Rogers Roberts, born March 4, 1897. 
iv. Eugene Bowie Roberts, born May 18, 1898. 

2;^S. Colin Bowie, born December 9, 1864; died July 5, 1865. 

234. Mary Oden Bowie, born February 18, 1867; married September 16, 1890, 

Thomas Whitridge. 

Children: 
i. Thomas Whitridge, born July 30, 1891. 
ii. Helen Eccleston Whitridge, born September 28, 1894. 
iii. Alice Bowie Whitridge, born June i, 1898. 

235. Carter Lee Bowie, born July 25, 1872; unmarried. 

236. Washington Booth Bowie, born July 25, 1874; unmarried. 

138. Bernard Carter* (Rosalie K.'\ George^, Benedict^), born July 20, 
1834; married April 20, 1858, Mary Buckner Ridgely, born July 26, 1834. 

Children of Bernard Carter and Mary Buckner Ridgely. 

237. Charles Henry Carter, born February 19, 1859; married November 26, 1896, 

Sarah Daingerfield. 

Child: 
i. Eleanor Carter, born October 10, 1897. 

238. Mary Louisa Carter, born March 4, i860; married November 6, 1889, A. Rob- 

inson White. 

Children: 

i. Mary Louisa White. 

ii Rebecca White, 
iii. John White, 
iv. Alice White. 

V. Mildred White. 

239. Bernard Moor Carter, born February 20, 1861; unmarried. 

240. John Ridgely Carter, born November 28, 1862; married May 25, 1887, Alice 

Morgan. 

Children: 

i. Mildred Carter, born March 5, 1888. 
ii. Bernard Shirley Carter. 

241. Rosalie Eugenia Carter, born February 4, 1864; married June 11, 1889, Ernest 

Law, born March 28, 1858. 

Children: 

i. Rosalie Eugenia Carter Law, born September 11, 1890. 

ii. Edward Law, born November 4. 1891. 
iii. Bernard Law. born June 27, 1895. 
iv Mary Law, born April 14, 1900. 



44 



4' 11 E ANCESTRY OF 



242. Guy Norman Cartkr, died. 

243. Mildred Randolmi Carter, died. 

244. George Calvert Carter, married October 25, 1898, Mary W. Benson. 

Children: 
i. Virginia Carter, 
ii. Mary Ridgely Carter. 

245. Harriet Norman Carter, died. 

246. Shirley Carter, l)()ni July 3, 1871; .married November 3, 1898, Jessie Murchi- 

son; no issue. 

247. Alice Bowie Carter, born July 16, 1874; married February 14, 1900, Arthur 

Lyman Fiske. 

Child: 
i. Arthur Lyman Fiske. 

248. Julian Stuart Carter, born May 16, 1876; married February 20, 1899, Aurora 

Hazlehurst. 

Child: 
i. Aurora Hazlehurst Carter, born March 5, 1900. 

139. Ella Carter"^ (Rosalie Eugenia^, George'-, Benedict^), born De- 
cember 10, 1836; died September 27, 1893; married June 18, 1863, at " Good- 
vs^ood," Prince George's County, Maryland, Samuel Knox George, born May 
T2, 1836. 

Cliildren of Samuel K. George and Ella Carter : 

249. Alice Lee George, born April 2, 1864; married March 20, 1901, Robert E. Lee 

de Potestad. 

Child: 
i. Ella Alice Lee de Potestad, born August 24, 1902. 

250. Charles Henry Carter George, born November 8, 1866; married February 2, 

1894, Louise Shaub Dugan. 

Children: 
i. Ella Carter George, born February 14, 1895. 
ii. Agnes Dugan George, born April 10, 1897. 

251. Archibald Lord George, born July 13, 1868; died July, 1869. 

252. Ella Calvert George, born March 3, 1871; died August, 1871. 

253. Samuel Knox George, born April 20, 1873; unmarried. 

254. Eleanor Bernard George, born June 25, 1875; unmarried. 

255. Robert E. Lee George, born June 17, 1876; unmarried. 

143. Ella Calvert' (Charles Benedict'', George-, Benedict^), born in 
Baltimore, March 20, 1840; died in Washington, February i/, 1902; mar- 
ried September 3, 1861, Duncan G. Campbell, son of Justice John A. Campbell 
and Anne Esther Goldthwaitc. 

Children of Dtmcan G. Campbell and Ella Calvert : 

256. Charlotte Campbell, born February 15, 1863; married January 2, 1904, Robert 

E. Nelson. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 45 

257. Ella Calvert Campbell, born October i, 1864; married November 17, 1903, 

J. Adger Smyth. 

258. John Archibald Campbell, born April 9, 1866; died December 16, 1902; mar- 

ried January 29, 1902, Mary Potts Johnson. 

259. Anna Goldthwaite Campbell, born December 31, 1867; married June 7, 1898, 

Charles W. McFee^ of Delaware. 

144. George Henry Calvert* (Charles B.^, George-, Benedict^), born 
at Riversdale, November 29, 1841 ; married December 26, 1872, Frances 
Seybolt. 

Children of George H. Calvert and Frances Seybolt : 

260. Julia Stuart Calvert, born December i, 1873. 

261. Charles Benedict Calvert, born July 21, 1875. 

262. George Calvert, born January 21, 1879. 

263. Cecilius Calvert, born August 18, 1881. 

264. John Wentworth Calvert, born December 12, 1884. 

145. Charles Baltimore Calvert* (Charles B.^, George^ Benedict^), 
born at Riversdale, February 5, 1843; married 1866, Eleanor Mackubin. 

Children of Charles B. Calvert and Eleanor Mackubin : 

265. Eleanor Calvert, born 1867; married June, 1892, Gibson Gary, of Baltimore 

266. Hester Virginia Calvert, born 1867; married Dr. Henry Walter Lilly, of 

North Carolina; one child. ' 

267. Charlotte Augusta Caia'Ert, born 186S; married Spence; one child.- ■ 

268. Charles Benedict Calvert, died young. 

269. Richard Mackubin Calvert. 

270. George Henry Calvert. 

271. Rosalie Eugenia Calvert. 

272. Elizabeth Calvert. 

273. Charles Baltimore Calvert. 

150. Margaret Stuart* (Julia^ George^, Benedict*), born March 29, 
1837; died February 16, 1893; married November 23, 1865, at Cedar Grove, 
Robert W. Hunter, of Winchester, Virginia. 

Children of Robert W. Hunter and Margaret Stuart : 

274. Julia Calvert Hunter, born May 23, 1868; married December 31, 1902, Robert 

MacMillan Kennedy. 

Child: 
i. Margaret Stuart Kennedy, born September 17, 1903. 

275. Martha Forrest Hunter, born December 21, 1869; married February 9, 1892, 

Dr. John Pendleton Campbell. 

Children: 
i. Robert Hunter Campbell, born March 14, 1893; died January 

4. 1896. 
ii. Margaret Stuart Campbell, born January 29, 1896. 
iii. Ellen Blair Campbell, born April, : died June, 1900. 



46 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



276. Caroline Stuart Holliday Hunter, born November 17, 1872. 

277. Richard Stuart Hunter, born February i, 1875. 

278. Edmund Pendleton Hunter, born December 17, 1877. 



III. Caroline Maria Calvert, married Thomas Willing 
Morris. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 47 



CHARLES CALVERT. 
VI. 

Charles Calvert, married November 21, 1722, Rebecca Gerrard, who died 
in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1734/5; daughter of John and Elizabeth Gerrard, of 
Prince George's County.^ 

In May, 1720, Lord Guilford, guardian of Charles, the fifth Lord Baltimore, 
deemed it expedient to remove John Hart, Governor of Maryland, and applied 
to the king and council for permission to appoint in his stead Captain Charles 
Calvert, of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, uncle of Lord Baltimore. This 
being acceded to, the new governor at once sailed for Maryland, presiding over 
the assembly at Annapolis in October of the same year.^ 

Charles Calvert continued as governor until 1727, when Benedict Leonard 
Calvert, the brother of Lord Baltimore, succeeded him, and Charles was ap- 
pointed commissary-general.^ Owing to family dissatisfaction, in 1728 Edward 
Henry Calvert, another brother of Lord Baltimore, was sent over to supplant 
Charles Calvert.* Edward Henry Calvert died in April or May, of 1730,^ and 
Charles Calvert seems to have been reinstated as commissary-general, as he 
held that office in November, 1732, when the will of Governor Benedict Leonard 
Calvert was probated.^ Charles Calvert died between the latter date and Janu- 
ary of T734.'' 

Children of Charles Calvert and Rebecca Gerrard : 

I. Charles Calvert, born November 2, 1723; died January 15, 1724.** 



Note. — The parentage of Charles Calvert has not been determined. The following extract is from 

the register of St. Anne's Church, Annapolis : 

" Aug. 8. 1722 : Died Madam Margaret Lasenby, aunt to our present Governour Charles Calvert Esq." 
Among the Shippen letters is one dated June 30, T728, written by Charlotte Brerewood to her brother, 

Governor Benedict Leonard Calvert, of Maryland, in which she mentions their cousin the Captain, and refers 

to Charles Calvert, former Governor of Maryland. 

* " The Hono*"'" Charles Colvart Esq'' Gov' of Man'land was married to Rebecca Gerrard (daughter of 
Mr. John Gerrard late of Prince George's Cou*y decei* and Eliz» his wife) by the Rev* Jacob Henderson 
Rector of St. Barnabas Church in Queen .'\nn Parish November the 21"' 1722." (Register of St. Anne's 
Church, Annapolis, Md., p. 294.) 

^Scharf's " History of Maryland," vol. i., p. 391. W. H. Browne's "Maryland," p. 209, also makes 
the statement of the relationship. 

'Hall's " Baltimores," p. 151. 

* In the collection of the late Edward Shippen, Esquire, of Philadelphia, is a letter from Charles Lowe 
to Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland, sent by the hand of Edward Henry Calvert, who was 
to sail to Maryland with the appointment of commissary general to succeed Charles Calvert, who had 
formerly been governor also. 

5 His will dated April 24th, proved May isth, 1730. 

6 Anne Arundel County Wills, Liber CC, No. 3, folio 496. 
'' The date of his widow's will. 

8 " Nov. 2, 1723, was Born Charles, the son of his Exy Charles Calvert, Govf of Maryland and Rebecca 
his Lady 

" Nov. 13, 1723, Baptized, Charles, the son of his E.x? Charles Calvert Esq. Gov' and Rebecca his Lady. 

"Jan. IS, 1723-4: Died, Charles, y* son of his Ex^ Charles Calvert Esq. ourGoVand Rebecca his Lady. 

" February 24th, 1730. Was Born Elizabeth Calvert, Daughter of the Honourable Charles Calvert 
Esq' and Rebecca Calvert (who was daughter of Mr. John Gerard and Elizabeth Gerard of Patuxent in 



48 THEANCESTRYOF 

2. Ann Calvert, who is mentioned in licr mother's will in 1734. 

3. ELIZABETH CALVERT, born February 24,. 1730; married April 21, 1748, Bene- 

dict Calvert. 

The will of Rebecca Calvert, of Annapolis, widow, dated January 19, 1734; 
proved March 13, 1734; bequeathed to her daughter Ann her watch, jewels, 
wearing a])])art'l and side saddle ; to her two children her " pocket pieces to be 
kept for them " ; the residue of her estate to her two children. Owing to the 
precariousness of slaves and household goods, the executors were to dispose 
of the same, unless they should decide otherwise. The executors were to be 
also guardians of the children; Mrs. Razolini to have the care of them during 
their minority and imtil they marry, should she live so long. Due care was to 
be taken to educate the children in the Protestant religion. The executors were 
(o lease the lands which were the testator's own proper inheritance, for the 
benefit of the children, and to either sell the land warrant of five thousand acres 
taken out of the Land Ofifice or to take up the land, as they should think best. 

The family pictures were to be safely cared for and delivered to the children 
when they should come of age or marry. Rings were to be given to the 
governor, Mr. Tasker, Mr. Plater, Rev. Jacob Henderson, Mr. Dulaney and 
Mrs. Razolini. To Ann Street, a servant, was to be given a year's wages, a suit 
of mourning and some of the testator's clothing. The executors appointed 
were Benjamin Tasker, Esq., George Plater, Esq., and Onorio Razolini. ]Mr. 
Dulaney's advice and assistance was to be asked for the children and their 
concerns. Benjamin Tasker, Esq., renoimced his executorship April 31, 1735. 
The will was witnessed by Ann Plater, D. Dulaney and Samuel Stringer. 



V. Elizabeth Calvert, married Benedict Calvert. 
IV. George Calvert, married Rosalie Eugenia Stier. 
III. Caroline Maria Calvert, married Thomas Willing 

Morris. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Rorert Winder Johnson. 



Maryland) and baptized at her Father's House by the ReVi Mr. Edgar of Westminster Parish her Godfather 
being the Hon'>ic Benedict Leonard Calvert Esq'' then Governor of Maryland, and her Godmothers Mrs. 
Elizabeth Gerrard (her Grandmother) and Mrs. Rebecca Dulany." (Register of St. Anne's Church, 
Annapolis, Md.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 49 



CARRINGTON. 

Generation VII. 

Dr. Paul Carrington, chinirg-eon, of the Island of Barbadoes, married, 
first, May 10, 1687, Thomazine Waterland. An act divorcing Thomazine Water- 
land from Dr. Paul Carrington was passed August 13, 1706. He married, sec- 
ond, Henningham Codrington, who died January 28, 1744/5, aged sixty-nine 
years; buried January 29, 1744/5'- Mr. Peyton R. Carrington, of Richmond, 
Virginia, writes an interesting letter concerning the Carrington family, in which 
he quotes a letter of Mrs. Elizabeth Carrington, dated Buckinghamshire, Eng- 
land, July 18, 1868: "I was perfectly aware of the connection between your 
branch of the Carrington family, that is, if you are descended from the George 
Carrington, son of Mr. Paul Carrington, who went to America. He is put 
down in our record as having emigrated. . . . 

" The granddaughter of George, the emigrant. Miss Eliza G. Carrington, 
daughter of his youngest son Major Mayo Carrington, was alive in 1868, and 
remembered the crest of the family on some pewter plate that she had brought 
from her old home, Boston Hill, Cumberland County, but she could not dis- 
tinctly describe the crest. 

" The arms of the family of Mrs. Elizabeth Carrington, of Buckinghamshire, 
England, are, ' Ar on a bend sa, three lozenges of the field. Crest — Out of a 
ducal coronet or, a unicorn's head sa.' 

" George Carrington came to Virginia in 1723 with the family of Joseph and 
William Mayo. But it seems that long ere that time Paul, his father, had visited 
Virginia, as the following letters attest : 

" Barbadoes, April ye isth 1703. 
" Mr. Paul Carrington: 

" Sr: we have ordered Capt. Hawkings to apply himselfe to you when he arrives in 
Virginia. Wee desire that you would assist him in fraughting ye sloop Back for the 
island. If you cannot fraught her in five weeks' Time at lifive pounds per Tunne then wee 
Desire you would send her for Philadelphia to Mr Charles Sober. What fTraught shee 
makes to Virginia wee Desire that you would Remitt in Tobacco, Pitch & Tare in ye Sloop. 
If ye Sloop fifraught in Virginia, wee desire that you would put 50 Live Hoggs on Board 
out of ye fifraught money. We leive it to yor managemt not doubting but that you will 
do for us as if it were your own. Wee wish you a Prosperous Voyage from yor 

'■ flfriends & Servts 

" Anth'o Palmer & Compa." 



'At Barbadoes, of an earlier date than the records of Dr. Paul Carrington are the following: Ann 
Carrington and John Thatcher married in Christ Church Parish, Barbadoes, 1661 ; Ann Carrington and 
Nicholas Newton, married in St. Michael's Parish, Barbadoes, 1671. 



50 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



" Barbadoes, Aprill ye 13 1703 
" Capt. Richard Hawkings: 

"Wee do Order you to Repair on Board ye Sloope Elizabeth, whereof you are Master 
and Get ye vessell under Sail & keep Company w'th ye Man of Warr as farr as Shee 
will goe to ye Northward and when she Lieves you then make ye best of your way to 
Virginia, and when Please God you arrive there apply your self to our fifriend Mr. Paul 
Carrington, & hee will assist you in getting fraught Back for the Island. If you find you 
cannot Gitt fraught at five pounds P'r Tunne and be Laded in a month or iifive weeks' 
Time then Lay out the fifraught money in Tarr 81 Pitch & goe for Philadelphia and apply 
yo'r selfe to our ffriend Mr Charles Sober & he will assist you in Getting fifraught for this 
Island. Pray be as Speedy as you can in making & Quick voyage that you may go home 
for London w'th ye fllcet that Intends to sail ye Latter End of July next, wee wish you a 
Prosperous voyage. 

" Concludes from 

" yo'r ffriends to serve you 

" Anth'o Palmer & Co." 

These letters were used in a suit at a court held for York County, June 
24, 1703, between "' Paul Carrin^rton of ye Island of Barbadoes, Merch't," and 
said Hawkins. The complaint of Carrington was that : 

Whereas ye s'd Paul Carrington at the port of Carlile in ye Island of Barbadoes 
upon ye 15th of Aprill in ye Second year of ye Reigne of ye Queene that now is Shipped 
scverall goods &c. upon ye s'd sloop whereof ye s'd Hawkins was then Master and Bound 
for James River in the Dominion of Virginia w'ch s'd goods &c. consisted in Negroes, 
Rum, Sugar and Molasses and wear to be delivered in good order and well conditioned 

at ye port of James River in Virg's afores'd as # Bill of Loading Contrary to which 

j'^e s'd goods when Landed at ye Port afores'd were waste. Damnified, &c., to his Damage 
200 £ Gen'll Issue not Guilty by Hawkins' Attorneys Richard Wharton and Robert Hyde. 
Jury Impanelled and verdict — " Not guilty." 

Counter suit by Richard Hawkins, Mariner, &c. for 48 pounds sterl. due from Paul 
Carrington for the " fifraught of 18 Negroes and one White Boy." The Defendant by his 
attorney, Mr. Samuel Selden, pleaded " Nil debit per partriam." And both plaintifT and 
defendant produced their orders from the owners of the sloop. Verdict by the jury, " We. 
find for the defendant." 

A letter to F. Willinj^ Leach, of Philadelphia, from P. P. Carrington, dated 
Richmond, Virginia, November 27, 1894, contains the following: 

In 1760 Mr. Chas. Willing of Philadelphia married Eliza Hannah Carrington of St. 
Phillips Parish, Barbadoes, W. I., this information I received from that Island at the same 
time I received a copy from the Records of Barbadoes of every name of Carrington re- 
corded there, from 1686 to 181 1 both inclusive, embracing dates of marriage, baptism and 
death. . . . We trace our name back only to Dr. Paul Carrington " Chirurgeon or 
Surgeon " of that Island who married 2nd Miss Llenningham, a daughter of Lt. Gov. 
Christopher Codrington ~ who emigrated from England to the Island of Barbadoes during 
Cromwell's reign and from thence removed to Antigua about 1676 where he died in 1698, 
(leaving besides the said daughter, Christopher Codrington Jr., who became a distinguished 
soldier &c. and died about 1710. His remains now rest in All Souls College, Oxford, Eng- 
land, and his other son John, from whom Admiral Codrington descended) they were married 
about 1700 to 1701, he died after 1714; she died 28 January 1744, aged sixty-nine years. They 



^ This assertion has not been verified. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON ^i 



had eight children among whom was (their 2d) Hannah, born 22 Feby. 1704, (their 6th) Col. 
George Carrington who emigrated to this State in 1723 or before (with his half sister, 
Anne, the then wife of Joseph Mayo, said Anne and Joseph were married in Barbadoes in 
St. Phillips Parish in 1716), was the progenitor of the branch of our name in Virginia, 
which through all its ramifications, is legion. I have corresponded with many of the same 
name in this country and have not been able to trace any connection with any other branch, 
nearly all of the descendants from Col. George are residents of the Southern States. 

We have not been able to trace our line back to the mother country England, al- 
though there is a fainily of the name in Buckinghamshire and another in Devonshire. We 
are fully convinced that our ancestor left the mother country during Cromwell's reign. The 
Buckinghamshire branch we know descends from Dr. Paul and one George, who was born 
in said Island in 181 1. removed to England and died there at his seat, Messendia Abbey, 
Great Messendia in 185 — ; I corresponded with his wife in 1868, she is now dead. . . . 

I was told some years ago that one of our relatives. Miss Ann Bernard, a grand- 
daughter of Col. George Carrington, now dec'd, who married Judge Peter Johnston, a 
brother of our late General Joe Johnston of this State, for a number of years visited 
your city and would often stay for months with some of her relations, she died in 1867 
aged ninety. I never met her, in fact that was about the beginning of my efforts to collect 
for our genealogical history. I was told that Mrs. Johnston met with some of her rela- 
tions from Barbadoes in your city. 

Children of Paul Carrington and Thomazine Waterland: 

1. John Carrington, baptized March 14, 1696/7, of whom no further information. 

2. William Carrington, baptized March 14, 1696/7, of whom no further informa- 

tion. 

Children of Paul Carrington and Henningham Codrington : 

3. Nathaniel Carrington, baptized October 31, 1702; married May 19. 1725. Mary 

Howell. 

Children : 

i. Elizabeth Carrington. 

ii. Judith Carrington, baptized April 6, 1730. 

iii. Paul Carrington, baptized January 9, 1731/2. 

iv. John Carrington. 

V. Robert Codrington Carrington. 

4. Hannah Carrington, born February 22, 1704/5: baptized November 23, 1707; 

married John Hearne. 

Children: 

i. Ann Hearne. 

ii. Ruth Hearne. 
iii. Elizabeth Hearne. 
iv. Codrington Hearne. 

V. Walter Hearne. 
vi. John Hearne. 
vii. Nathaniel Hearne. 

5. PAUL CARRINGTON. born June 23, 1706: died 1756; married (i) ; (2) 

Mary Mellowes. 

6. Codrington Carrington. born November 21, 1707; married July 25. mo. i^Hza- 

beth Bissett, widow. 

7. Robert Carrington, will dated October 14. 1734- proved October 16, i745, mem- 

tions his mother Henningham, etc. 



52 THE ANCESTRY OF 

8. William Carrington, baptized April 22,, 1710. 

9. George Carrington, born July i, 1711; baptized July 8, 1711; died February 7, 

1785; married in 1732, Anne, daughter of Major William Mayo. 

Children : 

i. Paul Carrington. 

ii. William Carrington. 
iii. George Carrington. 
iv. William Carrington. 

V. Joseph Carrington. 
vi. Henningham Carrington. 
vii. Nathaniel Carrington. 
viii. Edward Carrington. 
ix. Hannah Carrington. 

X. Mayo Carrington. 
xi. Mary Carrington. 

ID. Joseph Carrington. born July 24, baptized July 26, 1713. 

II. Edward Carrington, of Barbadoes; will proved December 7, 1745.^ 

The will of Henningham Carrington, of the parish of St. Philip, in the 
Island of Barbadoes, widow, dated January 19, 1744; proved December 7, 1745 - 
devised to her eldest son, Nathaniel Carrington, ten pounds. To Elizabeth Car- 
rington, the daughter of said son, twenty pounds, and six of the new silver 
spoons then in the house. To Judith Carrington, daughter of Nathaniel, a like 
bequest, and, in addition, her silver ladle, silver pepper box, one bed bolster and 
pillows. To all the other children of her son Nathaniel, viz., Paul, John and 
Robert Codrington Carrington, twenty pounds each; if Nathaniel had other 
children they were each to have a like sum. The executors were to sell the 
negroes and the money was to be placed in the hands of Codrington Carrington, 
and by him disposed of, either to the said Nathaniel, or for the use and educa- 
tion of his children. 

To Codrington Carrington was given all lands in the town and parish of 
St. Michael, in the island aforesaid, in trust for the use of the said Paul, John 
and Robert Codrington Carrington, to be divided between them when the last 
should come of age. 

To Codrington Carrington, forty pounds. To son-in-law, John Hearne, ten 
pounds ; to daughter Hannah, his wife, fifty pounds and her chaise ; to the chil- 
dren of John and Hannah Hearne, viz., Ann, Ruth, Elizabeth, Codrington and 
Walter Jn° Hearne, each twenty pounds, and to Nathaniel Hearne their young 
son, twenty-five pounds. 

Her son Paul was released from a debt due her, on condition that he pay 



'The will of Edward Carrington " of the Island of Barbadoes, but intending a voyage to Virginia," 
dated May 5, 1736 ; proved December 7, 1745, bequeathed to his mother Hen™ Carrington, fifty pounds ; to 
brother Codrington Carrington, £$0. To nieces, Ann Hearne, ;^ioo ; Ruth Hearne, ;^50 ; Elizabeth, Judith 
and Elizabeth Hannah Carrington, each ,^50; Ann Mihvard, £■^0. To nephew Paul Carrington, ^50, to be 
paid out of money due from estate of the testator's father Paul Carrington, deceased. Residue of estate to 
brothers, John Hearne, Paul and Codrington Carrington, for the use of brother Nathaniel Carrington or 
the latter's children. Brothers, John Hearne, Paul and Codrington Carrington, executors. Witnessed by 
John Meredith and Nathaniel Eden. (Certified copy from Barbadoes.) 



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53 



ten pounds to his daughter EHza Hannah Carrington. To her son George Car- 
rington was devised thirty pounds, in trust for himseh" and nis five children. To 
" daughter-in-law Elizabeth Carrington, spinster," ten pounds, one dozen pewter 
plates and all the leather chairs in the house. 

A gold ring was to be given to each of her sons and their wives, to her son- 
in-law John Hearne and Hannah, his wife ; to her daughter Elizabeth, to her 
daughters-in-law% Ann Mayo and Mary Milward, and to Mrs. Jane Adamson. 
The residue of the estate to be sold by the executors and the money placed in 
the hands of Codrington Carrington, to be disposed of at his discretion. Sons 
Paul and Codrington, and son-in-law John Hearne, appointed executors. The 
will was witnessed by Malachy Seaward, Samuel Nebbetts and Thomas Ballard. 
A codicil, dated January 20, 1744, revoked the order to dispose of all negroes. 
The negro man London, was devised to daughter Hannah Hearne in lieu of the 
fifty pounds devised to her : the negro woman Namiy to be sold. Witnessed by 
Samuel Nebbett and Thomas Eiallard. 

(Certified copy from Barbadoes.) 



VI. 

Paul Carrington, son of Dr. Paul Carrington, born in Barbadoes June 
23, 1706; baptized November 27,, 1707; probably died in the parish of St. 
Michael, Barbadoes, in 1756. He was twice married, but the name of his first 
wife is unknown. He married, second, Mary Mellowes. 

The will of Paul Carrington, of the parish of St. Michael, on the Island of 
Barbadoes, dated July 5, 1755, was proved July 2, 1756, at Pilgrim, Barbadoes, 
by Paul Carrington and Codrington Cogan, who testified to the handwriting, 
there having been no witnesses. To his wife Mary Carrington was devised one- 
third of the estate, both real and personal. The other two-thirds were to be 
divided between his children. He says : " If all my said children now born or 
whereof my s<i Wife now goes with child, should die not having received the 
benefit of the above bequest I then give the whole to my said wife as aforesaid." 
His negroes, Abigail and her two children. Jemmy and Dick, or such of them as 
his daughter Elizabeth Hannah should choose, were to be allotted to her, and 
considered as part of her share of the estate. 

His wife and his brother Codrington Carrington, and brother-in-law Ben- 
jamin Mellowes were appointed executors. A codicil dated July 6, 1755, devised 
to his daughter Elizabeth Hannah a negro girl, named Betty, with her future 
issue. 

Child of Paul Carrington (first marriage). 

1. ELIZABETH HANNAH CARRINGTON, born March 12, 1739/40; died Octo- 

ber 12, 1795; married May 24. 1760. Charles Willing. 

Children of Paul Carrington and Mary Mellowes : 

2. Codrington Carrington, in England when his mother made her will, in 1764. 

3. Elizabeth Carrington. 



54 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

Tlie will ol Aiary Carriiigton, of the parish of Saint Michael, in the Island 
of Barbadoes, dated August i6, 1704; proved May 30, 1765, bequeathed to 
Elizabeth Hannah, wife of Mr. Charles Willing, of the city of Philadelphia, 
daughter of her lale husband, Paul Carrington, by his hrst wife, a certain mu- 
latto or mestine slave, named Andrew, eldest son of her mulatto slave Franky ; 
also her silver coffee pot, silver chafing dish and silver teapot. 

To her son Codrington Carrington, then in England, was bequeathed a 
mulatto or mestine slave, named Harry, second son of the above-named Franky, 
as a token of her love and regard, with the desire that the slave should be treated 
like a white servant. To her said son was also given her two-handled silver 
cup. To Henry Fisher, of the parish of Saint Michael, one of the other two 
children of the slave Franky. To her niece Mary Mellowes, ten guineas to buy 
a ring. The residue of estate to her daughter Elizabeth Carrington when of 
age or at her marriage, but if she died before such time, then to son Codring- 
ton Carrington, except the other child of the slave Franky, which child was 
devised to her sister Ann, wife of Henry Falkingham, Esquire, of the parish of 
St. Michael. 

If her daughter Elizabeth and son Codrington died under age and without 
issue, the estate was to go to the children of her daughter Mary Barnard, wife 
of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Barnard, of the kingdom of Great Britain, and 
Elizabeth Hannah Willing, before mentioned, except the negro Phillis, who 
in such case was to be set free. 

Her brother-in-law, Henry Falkingham, and her sister Ann were appointed 
executors, unto each of whom was given twenty-five pounds to buy a ring. 
Witnessed by Ben. Mellowes, Jr., Benjamin Olton and Mary Mellowes. 

(Certified copy from Barbadoes.) 



V. Elizabeth Hannah Carrington, married Charles Willing. 
IV. Ann Willing, married Luke Morris. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline Maria 

Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 55 



CHANDERS. 

Generation IX. 

Thomas Chanders is supposed to have been a Quaker, and to have lived 
in England. Among those of this sect who suffered persecution in Ireland was 
Thomas Chanders, in Queen's County, from whom a horse worth £2 was taken 
as a fine for not contributing to the national Church in 1660. In 1661 Thomas 
Chanders, Henry Rose and nine others were apprehended in a meeting at Cater; 
lough (Carlow), by order of John Masters, Portrieve, and, without either ex- 
amination or mittimus in writing, committed to prison till the next sessions, at 
which they were indicted and by the jury found not guilty; nevertheless, they 
were still detained on pretence of fees, and, though an order was procured from 
the Lords Justices for their discharge, yet the country justices regarded it not. 
At the following assizes they were indicted by the direction of Judge Alexander, 
found guilty of meeting and fined £320. As most of the Irish Quakers were of 
English birth, this person may have been of the number. 



VIII. 

Alice Chanders, daughter of Thomas Chanders, married William Bailyes 
and resided at Birmingham, England, prior to 1672. The name is also given as 
Elizabeth Chanders. 

VII. Alice "Bailyes, married George Guest. 
VI. Phebe Guest, married Anthony Morris. 
V. Anthony Morris, married Elizabeth Hudson. 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline 
Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Eliz\beth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married R. Winder Johnson. 



CHARLE. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

CHAUWIN. 

Generation IX. 

See Stier Record. 



56 THE ANCESTRY OF 

CHEEUS. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

DE BRIALxMONT. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

DE CONINCK. 

Generation X. 
See Stier Record. 

DE DECKERE. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 

DE GROOT. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 

DE LA BISTRATE. 
Generation XL 
See Stier Record. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 57 



DENWOOD. 

Generation IX. 

LiVEiNGE Denvvuod (or " Levin " Denvvood) was an early resident of the 
Eastern Shore of Virginia, tirst appearing in the records of Northampton 
County on March 8, 1633.' His name was always spelled " Liveinge " in the 
Virginia records, and there is no evidence that he ever left that colony. His 
son Levin removed with his family to St. Monie, Maryland,- about 1670, where 
from this time the name appears to have been written " Levin." 

There are two traditions concerning the Christian name of Levin Denwood, 
which, although unauthenticated, yet as family lore may be given here. One 
is that his mother was a Huguenot maiden named " Le Vigne," who tied to 
England before the Edict of Nantes. The other, that he was the thirteenth child 
of his parents, twelve of whom had been still-born, and when he was found to be 
alive he was at once named " Liveinge." 

Levin is distinctly an Eastern Shore name, derived from this ancestor, from 
whom descend many of the best families of Virginia and Maryland. 

By the Grand Assembly held at James City in 1654 Levin Denwood was 
appointed a commissioner or member of the Justices' Court of Northampton 
County. He was still living and in Northampton County as late as 1665,^ but 
his will has not been found, nor other record of his death. The niaiden 
name of his wife Mary is believed to have l)een Cutting.* 

Children of Levin and Mary Denwood : 

1. Levin Denwood, married Priscilla . and had several children. 

2. Arthur Denwood, married Esther Robins, daughter of John Robins, and had 

numerous children whose names were given in John Robins's will. 
(Vol. 1707-1 717, Northampton County.) 

3. Luke Denwood. 

4. Mary Denwood, married Rogers Woolford, of Maryland. 

5. Elizabeth Denwood. 

6. SUSANNA DENWOOD, married Thomas Brown. 

7. Rebecca Denwood, married Covington, of Somerset County, Maryland. 

8. Sarah Denwood, married Hicks, of Maryland. 



1 Volume i., unpaged. 

2 At a quarterly meeting of the Society of Friends, held at Herring Creek, in Maryland, 7th of Ninth 
Month, 1688, an address was prepared, thanking Lord Baltimore for his late proclamation, allowing a simple 
affirmation instead of an oath in testamentary cases. This was signed by thirty jiersons, among whom was 
Levin Denwood. 

^ " Accomac County Records," vol. 1663 to 1666, p. 102. 

*Jane Hartree by her will of March 22, 1665 ("Northampton County Records," vol. ix., p. 123), 
made a large bequest to Mary Denwood, Sr., Elizabeth Denwood, Susanna Brown and Rebecca Denwood. 
The last three received much smaller legacies than their mother. Mrs. Hartree was the widow of Elias 
Hartree and a sister of Leonard and John Cutting. She was also nearly related to Jacob Hill, the latter 
being termed "kinsman" in her will. 



58 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



VIII. Susanna Denwoou, married Thomas Brown. 
VII. Anne (Brown) Preeson, married (2) Andrew Hamilton. 
VI. Andrew Hamilton, married Mary Till. 
V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



DONCKER. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 



I 




ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 59 



EVANS. 

PETER EVANS. 
Generation VII. 

Peter Evans, who calls himself in his will, " of the Inner Temple, London," 
died in Philadelphia, at the residence of his son-in-law David Franks, June 14, 
1745. He married Mary Moore, who was buried November 6, 1733; ' daughter 
of John and Rebecca Moore and sister of Rebecca Moore, wife of Lieutenant- 
Governor Evans. 

On December 11, 1704, Peter Evans was appointed deputy Register-Gen- 
eral of Pennsylvania, under Lieutenant-Governor John Evans; commissioned 
Register-General, Twelfth month 17, 1708/9, and July 3, 1713; was in office De- 
cember 6, 1725, and seems to have so continued until his death. - 

Peter Evans appears as High Sheriff of Philadelphia in 1707, 1709, and in 
1714.^ While holding this olTfice in 1709, during the season of contention be- 
tween the Proprietary's representatives and the Assembly, he received the re- 
markable order from the Assembly to arrest James Logan, Penn's secretary.* 

He was one of the solicitors of the Court of Equity in 1720,^ and upon the 
death of John Moore in 1732. succeeded the latter as Grosvenor Bedford's Dep- 
uty Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, continuing in that office until his resig- 
nation, in 1743.® He was a vestryman of Christ Church, 1719, 1723-31, 1735-37, 
1740, and from 1742 to 1744; was warden in 1729 and 1730.'^ 

In 1714 Peter Evans was indicted for having sent a challenge to one Francis 
Phillips ; the action of the grand jury is here given : '' 

City of philad'* 

The Grand Inquest for our Lord the King upon their respective Oaths & Affirma- 
tions do present that Peter Evans late of the City of Philad^. Gent^ the Tenth Day of 
March In the year of the Reign of our Lord George King of Great Britain Ffrance & Ire- 
land Defender of the ffaith [torn] the fifirst at the City aforesd a Certain Challenge in 



1 Christ Church Records, Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. iii., p. 224. 

2 Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 73. 

* Ibid., p. 100 ; Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. x., p. 418 ; Philadelphia Deeds, 
Liber G. 5, folio 447. 

■•Warrant dated 2Sth gbr 1709, addressed to Peter Evans, Esq., High Sheriff, signed by David Lloyd, 
Speaker of the Assembly, charged the Sheriff to take James Logan into his custody, and safely detain him in 
the County gaol of our Lady the Queen, until he should willingly make his submission to the satisfaction of 
the House. The preamble sets forth that "the House of Representatives did yesterday adjudge James 
Logan, for his offence in reflecting on sundry Members of the House in particular, and the whole House in 
general, charging the proceedings of this Assembly with unfairness and injustice." Logan refuted the 
charges in the " Justification," which he sent in to the Assembly. (" Memoirs of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania," vol. ,\., p. 418.) 

^Martin's " Bench and Bar." p. 63. 

^ Ibid., p. 130. 

"^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xi.x., p. 521 ; Dorr's " History of Christ Church," p. 295. 

^ Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxii., p. 380. 



6o THEANCESTRYOF 

Writing to one Francis Phillips of the same City Clerk [torn] send to ffight him the sd 
Peter Evans at Sword Did send agt an Act of Gen'all Assembly of this Government in 
that Case & provided as also agt the Peace of the sd Lord ye King his Crown & Dignity 

&C. ASSHETON. 

We of the Jury do find that Peter Evans in the Indictment mentioned did send a Let- 
ter in Writing to Francis Phillips containing these words 

'•Sir 

" You have basely Scandalized a Gentlewoman that I have a profound respect for. 
And for my part shall give you a fair opportunity to defend yourself tomorrow morning on 
the West side of Jos-' Carpenters Garden betwixt Seven & 8, where I shall expect to meet 
you gladio cinctus in failure whereof depend upon the usage you deserve from 

" Yr 
" Jany 21 1714 " Pet Evans 

" I am at ye pewter platter." ^ 

Iff upon the whole the Court do Judge the words contained in the said Letter to be 
a Challenge, Then we do find the said Peter Evans Guilty. But if the Court do Judge 
the words contained in the said letter are no Challenge — Then we do find the sd Peter 
Evans not Guilty. 

Test, pr fifrancis Phillips 

William Jones Margt. Styler 

Jas. Woodward Margt. Bristol 

Tho. Mame (?) Jno. Read 



Mary May 



Billa Vera 



Phillips was a clergyman, and is described as '" a pretender and a scamp," 
who had " boasted of conquest among- respectable ladies. He was soon foimd 
out and was dismissed." ^'^ 

The following notices appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette on the dates 
given : 

June 20, 1745. " Friday last died here, after a long illness, Peter Evans, Esq., an 
eminent Counselor at Law, and many years Collector of the King's Customs for this 
port." 11 

July i8th, 1745. " All persons having any Books belonging to the Estate of Peter 
Evans, Esq., deceased, are desired immediately to bring them to Peter Robertson, or 
leave them at the house of Mr. David Franks where the deceased lately dwelt, that the)' 
may be appraised." 

September iQth, 1745. " On the 24th of .S<;ptember will begin to be sold at the house 
of Peter Robertson in Front Street, Philadelphia, the Library of Peter Evans, Esq., de- 
ceased. The lowest price will be marked, in each Book. Catalogues to be had at the place 
of sale." 



^The original challenge is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ("Ancient 
Records of Philadelphia." ) The Pewter Platter Inn stood at the corner of Front street and Jones's alley ; its 
sign was a large pewter platter. The oddity of the device made it so famous that it gave the alley its name 
(now Church street). ("Watson's Annals," vol. i., p. 464.) 

10" The Boston News-letter," from Philadelphia, published at Boston, October 24, 1715, says : " Our 
governor had a letter from the bishop of London to suspend Mr. Phillips ; which is done ; and on Sunday 
last all our parishoners met at the church as formerly." (Ibid., vol. iii., p. 174.) 

11 June 20th was Thursday ; the Friday preceding was the 14th. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 6i 



The will of Peter Evans, of the Inner Temple, London, Gentleman, resident 
at Philadelphia, in the province of Pennsylvania, dated May lo, 1745, proved 
Augnst 6, 1745, starts in almost at once as follows : 

Whereas at the special instance and request, and upon the important service of John 
Moore, Esq., late Collector of Philadelphia, I have quitted my business in America and 
went on a voyage to London to negotiate the affairs of the said Collector, which with my 
other concerns for the said Collector for several years reduced my circumstances and very 
much hurt my interest; and the said Collector in his life time duly sensible of the same 
proposed to give me a good lot and house thereon in Philadelphia, as a recompense for 
my said services, but being at trouble by illness was prevented by death, since which his 
widow and executrix has refused to make me any satisfaction or come to any amicable 
settlement of my demand. . . whereby I was compelled to have recourse to the court 
of justice, where she commenced several actions against me without any prior notice . . . 
and whereas the matters in controversy are submitted to referees . . . and ... I 
hope they will give in their aw-ard as soon as they conveniently can, which award I desire 
my attorneys to carry to judgment and execution so as my children may receive no further 
trouble therein. 

The residue of estate was left to his four children, allowing his son two 
shares ; son John Evans and son-in-law Peter Robertson executors. 

Witnessed by Abram Vining, Joseph Barber and Peter Hodgson. 

Codicil dated May 13, 1745, witnessed by Abram Vining and Geo. Kelley; 
concerning a tenement and land at Schuylkill and house and lots at Center 
which had been assigned to John Moore, of New York, merchant, as security 
for £300 paid by said Moore to Coll. Evans, which sum was repaid by the tes- 
tator's son-in-law Peter Robertson who had since been in possession of said 
properties ; Robert Ellis and others were to appraise said real estate, and if 
insufficient to repay Peter Robertson he was to receive the balance out of the 
testator's estate. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber H, folio 15.) 

Children of Peter Evans and Mary ]\Ioore : 

1. Rebecca Evans, baptized Christ Church, June 13, 1716, aged one month: married 

(l) December 8, 1741, Peter Robertson; (2) February 8, 1759.^" 
Alexander Barclay, born about 1712; died January 12, 1771. Alexander 
Barclay was deputy Collector of the Port of Philadelphia in 1748, 
under Grosvenor Bedford. ^^ He was younger son of David Barclay, of 
London, who founded the house of David Barclay & Sons, and grandson 
of the noted Quaker Apologist. Robert Barclay, of Urie, who was at one 
time Governor of East Jersey.^* 

2. John Evans, baptized Christ Church, November 10, 1717. aged three weeks. It 

is probable that John Evans did not survive the privateering cruise, upon 
which he was about to embark at the time of making his will in 1747, 
as that instrument was proved the following year.'-'' 



12 Christ Church Records. 

13 Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 131. 

1^ Pennsvlvaiiia Magazine, vol. v., p. 96 ; vol. vi., p. 493. 

15 The will of John Evans of Philadelphia, mariner, being about to embarque on "a privateering 
cruize against the French and Spaniards in the privateer Snow, Warren, Alex Kattur, Commander," 
bequeathed to Mr. Peter Robertson, of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, "and to Rebecca his wife, my 



62 THE ANCESTRY OF 



3. Mary Evans, buried Christ Church, January 29, 1719/20. 

4. MARGARET EVANS, born August 2, 1720: baptized Christ Church, August 23, 

1721, died September 28, 1780; married December 17, 1743, David 
Franks. 

5. Mary Evans, born August 15, 1721; baptized Christ Church, August 23. 1721; 

by deed of July 5, 1751, conveyed to David Franks her portion of her 
mother's estate; she is therein described as of the township of Bethle- 
hem, Bucks County, Penna., Spinster. i" 

6. Peter Evans, baptized Christ Church, March 24, 1727/8, aged three weeks; buried 

Christ Church, August 31. 1728. 



VI. Margaret Evans, married David Franks. 

V. Abigail Franks, married Andrew Hamilton. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 

II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



sister, a gold ring to each of them." Anything which might be due from the estate of his father Peter Evans, 
Esq., deceased, pursuant to his will, was bequeathed by the testator to " Mr. David Franks of Philadelphia, 
merchant, and to Margaret his wife, my sister," chargeable with the payment of fifteen pounds " to my sister 
Mary Evans." David Franks and Margaret hiswife appointed executors. Dated May 16, 1747. Witnessed 
by William Moore, Junior, and Peter Hodgson. Proved 21st of ybr 1748, at which time one of the witnesses, 
William Moore, Junior, was "absent and in parts beyond sea." (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 9, folio 322.) 

The Pennsylvania Gazette of May 14, 1747, contains this notice : " We hear that the Warren Privateer, 
Captain Kattur, is to sail Tomorrow or next Day, on a Month's Cruize, between the Capes of Virginia and the 
Neversinks, to guard our Trade from the Enemies Privateers, who have chaced several Vessels lately near the 
Capes. She is fitted out by a Subscription among the Merchants of this City. The Men have Three Pounds 
Bounty Money, and are to share all Prizes." 

16 Philadelphia Deeds, Liber H, No. i, folio 556. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 63 



WILLIAM EVANS. 
Generation VIII. 

William Evens, of South Newington, in Oxfordshire, England, was mar- 
ried in October, 1663, to Jane Hodges. 

By a deed dated April 8, 1682, Richard Parkes of Hook Norton, County of Oxon, 
(England,) iron monger, oonveyed to V/illiam Evans of South Newenton in the said 
County, carpenter, 1/2 of 1/15 of a share of "propriety" of land in West New Jersey, 
which had been purchased from Daniel Wills of Northampton, County of Northampton, 
practitioner in chemistry, and Thomas Olive of Wellingborough, same County, haber- 
dasher. (West Jersey Deeds, Liber B, folio 528.) 

Return of Survey for William Evans, Oct. 13, 1682, of 323 acres of land on Rankokas 
River, bounded on the East by Thomas Harden, Vv'est by Robert Dimsdale, and North by 
the millbrook. (Revel's Book of Surveys, p. 33.) 

Deed, Nov. i, 1684: William Biddle of near Burlington, merchant to William Evans 
of Northampton River, West Jersey, carpenter, for 150 acres of the first laying out in 
the Second Tenth of the Province. (West Jersey Deeds, Liber B, folio 528.) 

Return of Survey of 7 acres for William Evans, according to a warrant directed 
to Daniel Leeds, dated 1684, by Simon Charles, of which one acre lies above Henry Jacobs 
Creek and six acres on the North side of the South branch of Northampton River, next 
above Enoch Core. (Revel's Book of Surveys, p. 65.) 

Return of Survey, 10 mo. 1687, of 300 acres for William Evans, at Mount Tray. 
(Ibid., p. no.) 



WILL OF WILLIAM EVANS. 

William Evens being .Sick of bodie yet in perfict memory at this prsent time do 
make this my Last will concerning disposall of my outward Estatt as foloweth first I 
make order and apoynt my Son Thomas Evens to be my wholl and Soil executor: my will 
is that my Sade Executor to pay and discharg all my debts out of my Stock of goods 
and chattels to be devided into three Eaquall parts one third part for my beloved wife 
Jean Evens, and one third for my Son Thomas Evens, and one third part for my son 
Williams Evens, and further I give unto my son Thomas Evens this house and planta- 
tion which I now live upon containing three hundred and twenty three acers of land be 
the same moor or Less, willing my son Thomas Evens my said Executor to pay unto my 
wife Jean Evens yearly during the terme of her natterall Life the Sum of Seaven pounds 
a year, and I give unto my son William Evens three hundred acers of Land allrcdy 
surveyed and taken up att Mount tray which I bought of John Skan: and that the Rever- 
shion of my two and thirteth part of a propriatry shall be Equally divided between my tooe 
Sons, and further I give unto my son Thomas Evens the Remaining part time according 
to the Indentour of my Servent Elizabeth Nickolls and I give unto my Son William Evens 
the Remaining part of time according to the Indentur of my Servent Thomas Pratt and 
that my Son shall performe the couvnants in the Said Indentur. in Witness whereof I 
have hereunto Satt my hand and Seall the Second day of the Sixth month caled Agust 
1688. 

(Signed) William Evens [seal] 

Witnesses, Thomas Olive, John Pain and Thomas Eves. 

Ancient copy in possession of Joseph Evans, Marlton, New Jersey. 



64 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Children of William and Jane Evans : 

1. Thomas Evans, i born November, 1664; married Sarah Hackney, daughter of 

Thomas Hackney of Burlington County; had daughter Sarah. 

2. WILLIAM EVANS, married Elizabeth Hanke or Hankes. 



WILL OF JANE EVANS. 

I Jane Evans widow, of Eshani within the County of Burlington in West Jersey: 
being sick of body yet of sound and perfect memory at this present time doe make this 
my Last will and testament hereby Revoking Anulling and makeing void all other wills 
and testaments hereto fore had or made by me and this onely to be taken for my Last will 
and testament and none other viz: 

I give and bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Evans widow of Thomas Evans ten 
shillings. . . . 

I give unto my grand daughter Sarah Evans her heirs and Assigns forever all that 
Remaining part of seven pound A year which was Left me by my husband and my bed and 
boulster and Rugg & blanket and curtains and my box. And my son William to have 
the use of the said Remaining part of seven pounds A year and goods till she comes to the 
Age of Eighteen years old. And if she shall die before she comes to the Age of Eighteen 
years old then the said Remaining part of seven pounds A year and goods I give unto my 
son William Evans his heirs and Assigns forever. 

I give unto Elizabeth Nichalls ten shillings when she comes out of her time. 

And all the Rest of my Estate goods Chattells, bills bonds whatsoever I give unto 
my son William Evans his heirs and Assigns forever whom I make my whole and sole 
Executor of this my Last will and testament In wittness whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and seal the sixteenth day of the twelveth month called february one thousand six 
hundred ninety & six. 

her 
Jane X Evans [seal] 
mark 

Witnesses, John Sharp. John (X) French and Thomas Eves. 
The will was proved November 22, 1697. 

(Burlington County Wills.) 

The Inventory of personal estate of Jane Evans amounting to £56/10/10, was made 
October 30, 1697, by John Sharp, Joshua Humphries and Henry Ballinger. 



1 Deed, June 27, 1691 : Thomas Ollive to Thomas Evans, both of Northampton River, yeomen, for 
400 acres, to be surveyed in West Jersey. (Liber B, folio 528. ) 

Return of Survey, 1691, of 400 acres for Thomas Evans, at the Indian Town of Quoexin, on one of the 
branches of Ancocus Riyer. (Revel's Surveys, p. 117.) 

Deed, Sept. 23, 1693 : Sarah, widow and executrix of Thomas Evans of Burlington County, deceased, 
and William Evans, of Eversham, said county, to Mary Ollive, widow, Daniel Wills, senior, and John Wills, 
executors of Thomas Ollive, for a wharf or water lot on Burlington Island ; sold by Thomas Evans, deceased, 
and William Evans to Thomas Ollive during their life time. (New Jersey Deeds, Liber B, folio 345.) 

The will of Thomas Evens of Wellingborough, Burlington County, is dated May 2, 1692, and proved 
Sept. 23, 1693, in which he mentions wife Sarah, daughter Sarah, brother William and sister Agniss ; also 400 
acres of land at Coexing, and other real estate. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 65 



VII. 

" William Evines of Evisum In West Jersey," and Elizabeth Hanke, of 
Darby, declared intentions of marriage at Darby Monthly Meeting. Anne Gar- 
rett and Elizabeth Levis were appointed to inquire as to her clearness of other 
engagements. They appeared again, Tenth month 6, 1693, and it is recorded 
that " both parties being found clear they may proceed according to Truth & 
good order." 

William Ez'ens signed his name as here given to an administration bond re- 
lating to his mother's estate, 1697. 

By deed of 10 mo. 29, 1688: John Skene of Peachf^eld, Burlington County. Esq-e, 
sold to William Evans, junior, of Northampton River, said County, son of William 
Evans, yeoman, deceased. 300 acres in the first division of West Jersey; bought of said 
John Skene by the father as part of Y^ of a share which said Skene bought of Tho : Hutch- 
eson September 13, 1686, and for which he gave no conveyance. William Evans paid £36 
on this land and by will dated 1688 devised it to his son William, to whom Skene now con- 
firmed it. (West Jersey Deeds, Liber B, folio 516.) 

Return of survey, ist mo. (March). 1689/90, of 160 acres for William and Thomas 
Evans, adjoining their former survey and that of Timothy Brandreth. (Revel's Book of 
Surveys, page 135.) 

John Clement, in his " First Settlers in Newton Township," page 169, says: 

In 1685 the settlers in Evesham, or the Vale of Evesham, as the neighborhood is 
called in some of the old titles, were few and wide apart. .A.mong them were William and 
Elizabeth Evans who lived in a cave near Mt. Laurel, on a tract of land William had located 
in 1682; and here were born their children. Thomas Evans, a brother of William, also 
settled in that neighborhood: his family was small, however, he having but a wife and 
daughter. 

Elizabeth the wife of William was a public Friend [i. e., a minister] and doubtless 
followed closely in the footsteps of the founders of her profession, and in their meetings 
frequently exhorted those around her to do likewise. 

Judge Clement evidently confuses the father and son in the above state- 
ment. He further states that the Friends' Meeting at Haddonfield was estab- 
lished about 1721, and that the trustees were William Evans, Joseph Cooper 
and Joseph Cooper, Jr. John Evans was a trustee of Newton Meeting in 1771. 

Joseph Evans, near Marlton, has an old deed from Hemson, an Indian king, 
to William Evans, dated Eighth month 6th, 1701, for 1,000 acres of land, of 
which the present farm is part. Joseph's grandfather, John Evans, gave the 
family tradition thus : " William and Elizabeth Evans emigrated from Wales 
about the year 16 — , and settled first in a cave near Evesham Meeting House 
(Mount Laurel). Elizabeth was an approved minister in the Society. William 
died 23d of 12 mo. 1728/9. They had two sons, Thomas and John. Their oldest 
son Thomas was born 12 mo. 12, 1693/4 and died 21st of i mo. 1783. He mar- 
ried Esther Haines 10 mo. ist 1715: married the second time to Rebecca Owen 
4 mo. 4, 1730." This shows that the tradition respecting the immigrant ancestor 
had become dim. 

The will of William Evens, of Evesham, yeoman, dated 2Tst of 12th month 
(February), 1728/9, proved March 24. 1728/9, mentions his wife Elizabeth, and 



66 T H E A N C E S 1 R Y O F 

children Thomas, Jane and John, the last a minor; also son-in-law William Hud- 
son and grandson William Evens, with legacies to Jane Stow, Joseph Hedges 
and Sarah Harvy. Witnessed by Jonathan Eldridge, John Turner and Samuel 
Atkinson. 

The inventory, amounting to £901/7/7, made by Josiah Foster and Samuel 
Lippincott, i mo. 28, 172S, includes eight negro slaves, valued at £270; bonds, 
bills and debts, £166/11/13; a clock and case, iio; a silver tankard and six 
dozen spoons, ii6. 

William Evans was an elder " whose house and heart were open to Friends. 
He was a man of a noble spirit." This is quoted in The Friend, vol. xxix., page 
268. The same journal (vol. xxx., page 276) says that Elizabeth Evans, the 
widow of William, was " a zealous woman, much concerned for the rising gen- 
eration. She had a public testimony to bear, which was innocent and accepta- 
ble." Her death took place during the year 1748, and, according to her me- 
morial, she " left a good name behind her." 

Children of William Evans and Elizabeth Hanke : 

1. Thomas Evans. 

2. JANE EVANS, born Eighth month 21, 1699; died Fifth month 15. 1759; married 

Eighth month 29, 1717, WilHam Hudson. 

3. John Evans. 



VI. Jane Evans, married William Hudson. 
V. Elizabeth Hudson, married Anthony Morris 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline 

Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 67 



FRANKS. 

Generation VII. 

Jacob Franks, son of Naphtali Franks, born in Germany, 1688; died in 
New York, January 16, 1769; buried in the cemetery of the Shearith Israel Con- 
gregation, on New Bowery, New York; married, 1719, Bilhah Abigail Levy, 
daughter of Moses Levy. 

Jacob Franks first settled in London, from whence he accompanied Moses 
Levy to New York, about 1705. He was, as a merchant, made a freeman of the 
city August 21, 171 1. 1 It is remarkable that in this same year he contributed to- 
wards building the steeple of Trinity Church. New York.^ 

Jacob Franks " was of intellectual parts while yet a youth, the masCter of 
many languages and learned in the Jewish law. He had the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity, and was known in the congregation by the title of Rabbi." ^ 

The following notice is from the Pcunsylvania Gazette of January 26, 1769: 

JACOB FRANKS. 

New York, January 23. 
Last Monday morning- died in an advanced age, Mr. Jacob Franks, for many year.s 
an eminent Merchant of this City. A gentleman of most amiable character; in his family 
a tender and kind master; as a merchant upright and punctual in all his dealings; as a 
citizen humane and benevolent, a friend to the poor of all denominations; affable and 
friendly in his behavior to all. He is now gone to receive from the supreme God whom he 
adored his reward among the faithful. The memorial of the righteous is blessed. On 
Tuesday his remains were decently interred in the Jews' burjing place, attended by a great 
number of his friends. 

Children of Jacob Franks and Rilhah Abigail Levy : 

1. DAVID FRANKS, born September 23, 1720; married December 17, 1743, Mar- 

garet Evans. 

2. Phila Franks, born June ig. 1722; married 1742. General Oliver DeLancey.* 

There were other children whose names have not been ascertained. 



1 " Memorial History of New York," J- G. Wilson, vol. iv., p. 546. 

' Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. 3, p. 85. 

■'' Ibid., No. 4, p. 197. 

* " Brigadier-General Oliver de Lancev, eldest son of Stephen de Lancey and .-\nn Van Cortlandt, born 
New York, 1717 ; in 1756 and 1758 was in command. of the New York provincials in the military operations at 
Lake George. Elected 1759 a representative to the Assembly for New York, and the following year was called 
to the Council, where he retained his seat until the dissolution of the government. At the breaking out of the 
Revolution he adhered to the Crown ; raised a corps of provincials called the De Lancey battalions and was 
appointed Brigadier-General. Bv the Act of 1779 his property was confiscated. After the peace he retired to 
England and died at Beverly, October 27, 1785 ; buried in the choir of the Cathedral of that place." 
(Documentary History of New York, vol. viii., p. 788.) 



68 THE ANCESTRY OF 



The following from the court records is of family interest : 
United States 



District of Pennsylvania '' 

On the 26th Day of December in the year of our Lord 1792 Before me Richard 
Peters Judge of the District Court of the United States in & for the Pennsylvania District 
came David Franks of the City of Philadelphia Gentleman & being duly sworn on the 
five Books of Moses (he being a Jew) doth depose and say That he from his youth always 
understood & believed & was so informed by his Parents Jacob & Abigail Franks that 
there was a DifTerence of near Twenty Months between the Ages of this Deponent & his 
sister Phila Franks, who intermarried with the late Oliver DeLancey deceased he this De- 
l)onent having been born on the 23d Day of September 1720 & his said Sister Phila on the 
19th Day of June 1722. That this Deponent is not only informed on this Subject by the 
general Reputation & Belief of the Family but has m his Possession a Copy of the Entry 
made by his said Father in the Family Bible of the Age (among the others of the Children 
of the said Father) of his said Sister Phila. That the Entry of the Birth of his said Sister 
is made in the English Words following " Phila born 19th June at 6 O clock P M Tuesday 
1722 Tanius 15th 5482 to these are added in Hebrew her Name & the Month & year of her 
Birth. That he was present when Gershom Seixas copied the entries of the Names & 
Times of Birth of the children of the said Jacob Franks and of the Family Bible which 
this Deponent compared with the original Entries & on his Oath declares them to be just 
& true. 

(Signed) David Franks. 

Sworn and subscribed 20th December 1792 before Richard Peters. •'^ 



VI. 

David Franks," son of Jacob and Bilhah Abigail Franks, was born in New 
York September 23, 1720. The date of death of David Franks has not been 
satisfactorily determined. He married December 17, 17.43, Margaret Evans, 
born August 2, 1720; died September 28, 1780; buried in the burial ground of 
Christ Church, Philadelphia; daughter of Peter and Mary (Moore) Evans. 

David Franks organized a military company in New York city about 1745-^ 
He later removed to Philadelphia and occupied the house built by William 
Logan, at the northwest corner of Second Street and Dodge Alley, where he was 
living in 1755, in which year he aided in an eflfort to raise funds, after Braddock's 



5 Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. i, p. 103. 

"The names of Jacob Franks's wife, of David Franks, and of David S. Franks, assistant cashier of the 
U. S. B., appear in a list of those who died of yellow fever in Philadelphia, or in the different parts of the 
union, after their departure from the city, from August ist to the middle of December, 1793. ("Yellow 
Fever in Philadelphia, 1793," ^tc., p. 134.) David S. Franks was a nephew of David Franks. (" The Jews 
of Philadelphia," by H. P. Rosenbach.) Colonel David Franks was the Confidential Aid of General Wash- 
ington, till his death, with whom he served during the Revolutionary War; after the Peace of Inde- 
pendence he was ajipointed Cashier of the United States Bank in Philadelphia. (Publications of the Amer- 
ican Jewish Historical Society, No. 12, p. 164.) 

Letters of administration were granted to Simon Gratz, at Philadelphia, December 30, 1806, on the 
estate of David Franks, merchant, deceased ; Hyman and Joseph Gratz of Philadelphia, merchants, sureties. 

Letters of administration granted at Philadelphia, January 13, 1794, to Moses Franks on the estate of 
David S. Franks, deceased. 

' Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. 4, p. 197. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 69 



defeat.** He was a member of the Independent Troop of Horse of Philadelphia 
in 1756.'-' 

David Franks was a signer of the non-nnportation agreement of 1765; '" 
was subsequently a Loyalist and removed to England during the Revolution. 
He was still living there in 1786; " but later returned to Philadelphia, and there 
resided until his death. ^- 

Children of David Franks and jMargaret Evans : 

1. ABIGAIL FRANKS, born January 6, 1744/5; baptized, Christ Church, Philadel- 

phia, April 12, 1745; died September 11, 1798; married January 6, 1768, 
Andrew Hamilton. 

2. Jacob Franks, born January 7, 1747; baptized Christ Church, April 20, 1747. He 

was living in England in 1781, and in a deed dated May 14th of that year 
he is described as " Of Isleworth, In the County of Middlesex, Es- 
quire." ^3 

3. Mary ("Polly'") Franks, born January 25, 1748: baptized Christ Church. April 

10, 1748: died August 26, 1774.1-* 

4. Rebecca Franks, born 1760; married by license dated New York, January 17, 

1782, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Johnson, the British officer who was 
surprised by Wayne at Stony Point. She accompanied her husband on 
his return to England, where in time he inherited his father's estate 
and baronetcy, and attained the rank of General. General Winfield 
Scott, in his autobiography, gives an account of his visit to this lady.^"' 



^ Publications of the American Jewisli Historical Society, No. i, p. 54. Pennsylvania Magazine, 
vol. iv., p. 55. 

8 " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. ii. (1876), p. 523. 

^^ Publications American Jewish Historical Society, No. 4, p. 197. 

" Deed, March 20, 1786. David Franks late of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania, but now 
of Isleworth in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, and Mark Lane of London, to Richard Harris et al. 
. . . assignment of lands in Pennsylvania, and lands in the Vandalia, Illinois and Wabash Claims, etc. 
(Philadelphia Deeds, Liber D, No. 17, folio, 503.) 

" May 30, 1795. Dined with Mr. Hamilton, handsome place bank of Schuylkill called Woodlands. 
Know Mr. Hamilton's two nephews who had been sent to England for education and were under care of John 
Franks Esq. of Isleworth, my father's ne.xt door neighbovir." ("Travels in America 100 years ago," by 
Thomas Twining, p. 162.) 

12 Pubhcations of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. i, p. 54. 

13 Philadelphia Deeds, Liber D, No. 7, folio 443. 

" The Pennsylvania Gazette, August 24, 1774, gives the following: " POLLY FRANKS.— On Sun- 
day evening last, after five days illness, in the prime of her life, Miss POLLY FRANKS, second daughter of 
David Franks, Esq., of this City ; a young lady whose sweetness of temper, elegance of manners, cheerful 
conversation and unblemished virtue endeared her to all her connections, and especially to her now mournful 
parents who found her in every part of life a shining example of filial duty and affection. Her remains were 
interred on Monday afternoon in Christ-Church burying ground, amid the tears of her numerous acquaint- 
ances and relatives." 

'^'^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. iii., p. 162. Rebecca Franks, brilliant, witty, attractive, gifted with 
quickness of comprehension, and withal a winsome presence, was one of the belles of Philadelphia society at 
the time of the Revolution. See Mrs. Ellefs "Women of the Revolution;" " Philadelphia Society One 
Hundred Years Ago," by Frederick D. Stone; "Through Colonial Doorways," by Anne Hollingsworth 
Wharton; Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxiii., p. 303- Also Rosenbach's "Jews in Philadelphia Prior to 
1800" ; Marken's " Hebrews in America," and Morais's " The Jews of Philadelphia." 



70 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



5. Moses Franks, who was living in London in 1781. being, with his brother Jacob, 
a party to the deed above mentioned, in which Moses is described as 
" of the Middle Temple, Gentleman." ^^ 

V. Abig-ml Fr/\nks, married Andrew Hamilton. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lvle. 
HI. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 

n. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalii' Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




16 Rebecca Franks writes to her sister Abigail, wife of Andrew Hamilton, from Flatbush, New York, 
August ID, 1781 : " And now my dear Abby I am going to tell you a piece of news that you'll dislike as 
mucli as I do. What think you of Moses coming out with a cockade ! He writes to Papa and me 'tis his 
serious resolve, and we must not be surprised if we see him this Summer. The idea of entering an Ensign at 
his time of life distresses [mc] more than anything I've met with since I left you. All the comfort I have is 
that his uncle M. will not allow him. I have not had an opportunity of asking Papa's opinion of it, as I 
received the letters since I've been here ; but I am certain he must disapprove of it as much as I do. Was 
he ten or twelve years younger I should not have the smallest objection, — but 'tis too late for him to enter into 
such a life, — and after the indulgence he's ever been used to he'll never brook being commanded from post to 
pillar by every brat of boy who may chance to be longer in the service. Tomorrow I shall write to him and 
make use of every argument I am mistress of to dissuade him from so mad a project, which I hope will 
arrive in time to prevent it, for if he once enters 1 would be the first to oppose his quitting it — as I ever 
lov'd a steady character. The danger of the war I have in a measure reconciled myself to. 'Tis only his 
age I object to and the dis-agreeable idea of his being sent the Lord knows where. If he does enter, which 
I hope to God he may not, I wish he may join the 17*'', or else get into the Dragoons — the latter I think 
he'll prefer on account of his lameness. He has not I believe wrote to you by this oppet'ty — aunt Franks 
and aunt Richa I believe have." {Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. .x.xiii., p. 306.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 71 

FROST. 

Generation XII. 

William Frost settled in Fairfield, Connecticut,^ in 1639. He was an old 
man when he went there, whom Lechford, in his " Plain Dealing," mentions with 
compassion, and states that he was from Nottingham, England. He was evi- 
dently a man of good family, who, from his religious principles, and perhaps 
to escape persecution, sought to end his days peacefully in New England. 

He died in 1645. His will, dated 6th of January, 1644/5, mentions his 
daughter Elizabeth Gray, her husband John Gray, and the children by her 
first husband, John Watson, namely, Luke Watson, Susanna Watson and Joanna 
Watson. 



XI. Elizabeth Frost, married John Watson. 

X. Luke Watson, married Sarah . 

IX. Luke Watson, married Mary . 

VIII. Elizabeth Watson, married George Lillingston. 
VIL Mary Lillingston, married William Till. 
VI. M.A.RY Till, married Andrew Hamilton. 
V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
HI. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
L Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



GREYNS. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 



1" History of Fairfield, Connecticut," page 368. 



72 - THEANCESTRYOF 

GROSSE. 
Generation X. 

IsAAf GkossK, the first of the name in America, " sided with the theological 
controversy of Wheelwright, and was disarmed, and followed him to Exeter 
(N. H.j, where in the first division of lands he received the honorary title of 
Mr. He was dismissed 6 January 1639, from the Boston to the Exeter Church, 
and was chosen the first ruler of the plantation of Exeter." By his will, dated 
Third month 29, 1649, in which he is described as " of Boston, Brewer,"" he be- 
(jucathed to his wife the house he then lived in and one hundred pounds. To his 
son Edwartl, t\\ o hundred pounds ; and to sons Clement and Matthew, one hun- 
(h-cd pounds each. To Mr. John Cotton, " teacher of the Church in New Eng- 
land," ten pounds ; to Philomon Pormont, of Wells, ten pounds ; to William War- 
(Inlil, of Wells, four pounds; to George Baxter, of Boston, four poinids ; to 
grandchild. Isaac Grosse, twenty pounds ; to grandchildren, Hannah and Susanna 
Grosse, each five pounds ; to grandchild, Thomas Grosse, ten pounds. Son 
Clement's wife enceinte. His son Edmund appointed executor ; witnessed by 
Thomas Marshall and Isaac Walker. No record of probate. The inventory was 
made Fourth month 5, 1649.^ 

The inventory of estate of the " Widow Grosse of Boston," made Tenth 
month 29, 1653, nientions a silver tobacco box, silver tureen, Spanish jewels, sil- 
ver wine cup, brew-house, and an Irish boy, the latter appraised at twelve pounds. 



IX. 

Clement Grosse, son of Isaac, by deed of April 5, 1678, with his w'lie Eliz- 
abeth, conveyed to his son Thomas Grosse, land in Boston called Bindall's Dock, 
near which Edward Shippen the Elder, " Upholsterer of Boston and Merchant of 
Thiladelphia," at one time lived. ^ By deed of July 10, 1680, Clement Grosse, of 
Boston, " late Inholder and Brewer," and Elizabeth, his wife, granted to Benja- 
min Mountford, for the consideration of three hundred and ten pounds, land in 
Boston ; which the deed recites, " all which our sale is for the only and better en- 
abling of us after the late great conflagration in Boston in August last to pay our 
just debts that amount to two hundred pounds part hereof, the other hundred 
pounds being the all that God hath left us for our subsistence having obtained 
liberty and full license from the Honured General Court sitting in Boston in Oc- 
tober last to sell all that our piece and parcell of Land which is remaining to us 
from ofT which our late housing was consumed, having heretofore given all my 
Children jjy Mary my former wife their several and sufficient portions of two 
hundred pounds apiece long since to each in money as in and by the sd order 
reference thereto being had amply appeareth." Thomas and Isaac Grosse, cliil- 



1 Boston Wills, file 416. 

2 Suffolk Deeds, Mass., I.iber x., folio 336 ; vvi., folio 152 ; xxiii., folio 159. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



73 



drcn of Clement Grosse by Mary, his first wife, gave their consent to the fore- 
going deed, October 29, 1680.-^ 

VIII. 

Thomas Grosse, son of Clement, married Elizabeth More. By deed of 
April 17, 1678, with his wife Elizabeth, Thomas Grosse, of Boston, " shop- 
keeper," sold to Bartholomew Cheeves, of Boston, " That Shop sitnatcd near 
the Great (Bindall's) Dock in Boston by the gateway passage that leads between 
the new dwelling house of Clement Grosse, etc." * 

Abigail Grosse, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, married, July 28, 1702, 
Joseph Shippen. 



VII. Abigail Grosse, married Joseph Shippen. 
VI. Ann Shippen, married Charles Willing. 
V. Charles Willing, married Elizabeth Hannah Carrington. 
IV. Ann Willing, married Luke Morris. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline Maria 

Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




3 Suffolk Deeds, Mass., Liber ii., folios 397, 398. 
* Ibid., Liber ii., folio 43. 



74 THE ANCESTRY OF 



GUEST. 

Generation \ HI. 

Among the Pemberton Papers in possession of the Pennsylvania Historical 
Society is a deed "made the flowerleenth day of March in the ffive and Twenty- 
eth yeare of the Raigne of our SoVaigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace 
of God of England, Scotland ft'rance and Ireland king defender of the lifaith &c. 
Annoq. Dom. 1672 Betvveene Joan Guest of Birmingham in the County of War- 
wicke Widdowe the Relict of John Guest late of Birmingham aforesaid vvhite- 
smyth deceased of thone parte And William Bailyes of Birmingham aforesaid 
Cordwyndcr and William Whytons of Birmingham aforesaid Taylor of the other 
part. Whereas the said John Guest deceased by his last will did Give and de- 
vise unto George Guest of Birmingham aforesaid whitesmyth Second Sonne of 
the Said John Guest deceased and to his heires forever after the decease of the 
said Joane Guest party to these p'sents All That messuage howse or Tenement 
Shopps Barnes Stables Edifices buildings and one peece or parcell of Land lately 
purchased by the said John Guest deceased of one Nicholas Jackson and now 
turned into a Garden Plecke and to the same messuage or Tenemt novve be- 
longing and appurteyneing as by the said last Will of the said John Guest may 
more att large appeare." 

The said Joane Guest, as well for the performance of the last will of her 
husband, as also for the natural love and afifection which she bears to her son 
George Guest and Alice his now wife, grants the above property, situated be- 
tween the house or tenement of Thomas Greene, the house or tenement of Sarah 
Guest widdow, daughter in Lawe of the said John Guest deceased, and other 
lands of the Crofte called Ladyfold, to the use of the said Joane during her life 
and afterward to the use of the said George Guest and Alice his wife, " during 
the term of their two natural lives and the life of the longer liver of them, and 
from and after them to the use of the heirs of the said George by said Alice his 
wife." 

vn. 

George Guest, son of John and Joane Guest, of Birmingham, England, mar- 
ried Alice Bailyes, daughter of William Bailyes or Baylis, of that place. They 
came to America in 1680 and settled at first " in the Jerseys," probably at Bur- 
lington, but when Alice heard that her sister Elizabeth Hard " designed to Phila- 
delphia," she and her husband removed thither and had " just got settled in a 
cave on the Bank of the Delaware," at the spot where the Crooked Billet Wharf 
was afterward constructed, between Chestnut and High Streets, when Elizabeth 
Hard arrived, and esteemed it a divine providence to find her sister, whom she 
had not seen for some years, thus ready to receive her, and in the cave they 
dwelt together till they could build. (Morris Genealogy, page 171.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 75 

Robert Proud states that the lirst house ereeted on this plot of ground 
was built by George Guest and was not finished at the lime of VVilliani 
Penn's arrival. It is also stated that George Guest kept the Blue Anchor tavern, 
adjoining this house, " lor many years," but it could not have been more than 
three, as his death occurred in 1685. Letters of administration on his estate 
were granted Eleventh month 6th, 16S5, to Joseph Browne, in the following 
form : 

" Whereas William Penn by the providence of God and the King's au- 
thority, proprietary and governor of the province of Pennsylvania hath granted 
a commission unto me Christopher Taylor, Register General for the keeping a 
Register's Office for the proving and registering of Wills and granting of pro- 
bates and letters of administration for the said province, I do hereby make known 
to all persons that whereas Joseph Browne of Philad*. in the province aforesaid, 
Brickmaker, hath made manifest unto me the said Christopher Taylor that he 
the said Joseph Browne is chief creditor of George Guest late of the same, also 
Brickmaker deceased, now know ye that I the said Christopher Taylor do by 
virtue of my commission permit and sufi'er the said Joseph Browne to admin- 
ister as the chief creditor aforesaid and as lawful and absolute administrator of 
all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and debts and estates both real and 

personal . . . [About four lines illegible at bottom of page.] 

. . . person or persons whatsoever. And also that the said administrator 
do and shall within three months to be accompted from the day of the date 
hereof bring in a just and faithful inventory ready cast up under the hands 
of three credible witnesses of the whole estate, goods, chattels, credits, 
rights and debts of the deceased as the deceased was possessed of in 
his lifetime, to me the said Christopher Taylor, the original thereof to remain in 
my office. And lastly I the said Christopher Taylor, do hereby fully empower 
the said administrator by virtue of these presents to sue for and obtayne and 
recover any sumes of money, goods or estate whatsoever due to the deceased 
in his lifetime from any person or persons whatsoever. Given under my hand and 
the seal of the Office at Philadelphia, the sixth day of the eleventh month 1685. 

*' Christopher Taylor, Reg. Gen." 

Children of George Guest and Alice Bailves : 

1. Mary Guest, buried First month 2, 1697/8; married Tenth month, 1690, William 

Say, of Burlington, '" in a publik assembly," in the presence of Alice. 
George, John and Elizabeth Guest William Hard, Thomas Budd, Arthur 
Cooke and nineteen others. William Say married (2) April 4, 1699, Mary 
Paschall. 

Children of W^illiam Say and Mary Guest: 

i. William Say. 

ii. Hannah Say, buried First month 27, 1698. 

2. Elizabeth Guest, born in Birmingham, England, 1675: died in Philadelphia. 

Fourth month 10, 1757: married Tenth month 5, 1695, Arthur Holton, 



76 THE ANCESTRY OF 

of Philadelphia, baker, " at the dwelling house of Alice Guest, widow,'' in 
the presence of Alice, George, John and Phebe Guest, William and Mary 
Say, William and Elizabeth Hard, Mary Willes and thirty-four others. 

Children: 
i. Mary Holton, married (i) Samuel Hudson; (2) Joshua Emlen. 
ii. John Holton, buried Sixth month 2"], 1705. 
iii. Arthur Holton, buried Fifth month 22,, 1707. 

3. George Guest, of Philadelphia, married at Burlington Meeting, Eighth month 15, 

1701, Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of James Marshall and Rachel Garth- 
waite, of Burlington, from York, England, in 1686. George Guest after- 
wards resided in Burlington, where he died before 1744. 

Children: 

i. Marshall Guest, born May 22, 1702. 
ii. Phebe Guest, born September 15, 1703; married Eighth month 

7, 1731, Obadiah Eldridge, of Philadelphia, 
iii. George Guest, born October 22, 1704. 
iv. James Guest, born December 10, 1709. 
V. John Guest, born January 3, 1713; married Twelfth month 23, 

1743/4, Elizabeth Simmons, 
vi. Rachel Guest, born February 28, 1715; died unmarried, 
vii. Anna Guest, born December 18, 1718; married Fifth month 7, 

1743, at Burlington, Thomas Clififord. 
viii. Jonathan Guest, born August 18, 1721; married (i) Jane ; 

(2) Margaret Cliiiford, sister of Thomas Clifford. 

4. John Guest. 

5. PHEBE GUEST, born Philadelphia, Seventh month 28, 1685; died March 18, 

1769; married Third month 10, 1704, Anthony Morris. 

The will of Alice Guest, of Philadelphia, widow, dated August 30, 1705 ; 
proved September 5, 1705; being " under indisposition and weakness of body," 
devised to her sister Elizabeth Hard, widow, five pounds, atid to the monthly 
meeting of Friends called Quakers, in Philadelphia, five pounds. 

To friends, Pentacost Teague and John Redman, Sr., for trouble in assist- 
ing the executor, five pounds each. To son George Guest her great Bible, and 
to her son John her silver tankard. Residue of estate to her four children, 
George and John Guest, Elizabeth Holton and Phebe Morris. 

To her eldest son George the brick house and lot on the east side of Front 
Street, where she was dwelling; also the houses, buildings etc., on the wharf 
or water lot on east side of King Street, with the lot on the said wharf or water 
lot, he to pay certain named legacies. 

To son John the brick house and lot on west side of Front Street, adjoining 
lot of William Say, wherein he was dwelling. To daughter Phebe, the wife of 
Anthony Morris, Jun., fifty pounds. To daughter Elizabeth, wife of Arthur 
Holton, sixty pounds. To grandson William Say, Jun., sixty pounds, when of 
age. To the rest of her grandchildren, viz., Marshall and Phebe Guest, Mary 
Holton and Mary Guest, each ten pounds when twenty-one years of age. 

To William Say, the elder, one shilling, having already given him as a por- 
tion, with her deceased daughter, his late wife, the lot whereon his house was 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



17 



standing, with twenty pounds, etc. Son George appointed executor. Wit- 
nessed by Nathaniel Edgcome, John Jones and Robert Pound.' 



VI. Phebe Guest, married Anthony Morris. 
V. Anthony Morris, married Elizabeth Hudson. 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 
III. Thom.\s Willing Morris, married Caroline 
Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




C^-^' 



> Philadelphia Wills, Liber C, folio 7. 



78 THE ANCESTRY OF 



HAMILTON. 
Generation VH. 

Andrew Hamilton, born about 1676; died August 4, 1741 ; married March 
6, 1706/ Anne Preeson, widow of Joseph I'reeson and daughter of Th-omas 
Brown and Susanna Denwood. Ann, wife of xA.ndrew Hamilton, died about 
1736. 

The very complete sketch of Andrew Hamilton, Esquire, by Joshua Francis 
Fisher, given in full below, was printed first in Volume IV., 2d series of The His- 
torical Magazine (August, 1868) and reprinted in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 
Volume XVI.. where it is accompanied by a copy of the portrait of Hamilton 
by Wertmuller, now in the Pennsylvania Historical Society. 

The name of Andrew Hamilton, it is probable, would have sunk into oblivion, but 
for the place it has in the History of Civil Rights, as that of one of the earliest and boldest 
assertors of the Liberty of speech and writing, to whom precedence must be given over the 
famous Mr. Erskine, in the enunciation of the now universally-accepted doctrines of the 
Law of Libel. All who have read his defence of the Printer, John Peter Zenger, before 
Chief-justice DeLancey and the Supreme Court of New York, in 1736, will perhaps desire 
to know something more of this learned and fearless Advocate. 

The following pages perhaps contain all the facts of his private history and pro- 
fessional and political career, which it is now possible to recover. They will probably 
excite regret that so little can now be known of a man whose patriotism and public spirit 
were as pre-eminent in the Province of Pennsylvania, as the legal attainments which mark 
him, in all respects, as the first of our Colonial Lawyers. 

Andrew Hamilton was a Scotchman, born in the year 1676. Although his parentage 
cannot be ascertained, he was doubtless of gentle blood; and his education must have been 
very good. Of his early history, nothing is known. The family tradition is that he had 
been obliged to f^y from his native country in consequence of killing a person of some 
importance in a duel. It is more likely that he may have been involved in some of the 
political difificulties during the reign of King William. 

At all events, he thought proper, for some time after his arrival in America, to con- 
ceal his name, taking that of Trent. Whatever the cause might have been, all danger to 
himself was passed in the reign of Queen Anne; and his admission to Gray's Inn and call 
to the English Bar forbid the idea of his emigration under a charge of felony or any 
disgraceful crime. 

His first residence - in the Colonies seems to have been the Eastern Shore of 



^ Northampton County, Va., Marriage Bonds. (See Pennsylvania Afa^azine, vol. xxv., 134.) 
^" On March 26, 1708, Andrew Hamilton, described as of Northampton County, Virginia, bought of 
John Toads, of Kent Conntv, Maryland, an estate in that county containing six hundred acres of land, and 
known as ' Henberry.' Henberry was situated on the north side of the Chester River, where the present 
town of Millington now stands. For this estate in fee simple, Hamilton paid two hundred pounds sterling 
and obtained a warranty deed, which was recorded in the County Clerk's office on September 15, 1708 On 
this plantation Hamilton lived for a number of years, and, as his legal fame spread, he practised law not only 
in Kent and the adjoining counties, but as far north as Philadelphia. 

" In 1715 an Assembly was summoned by Governor John Hart, largely for the purpose of codifying 
the existing law of the Province. To that Assembly, Andrew Hamilton was chosen as one of the four deputies 
from Kent County. It was his only legislative experience in Maryland, and he was not prompt in performing 



ANDKEW HAMILTC 

b. circa 1676. 
d. Aug. 4, 1741. 



I 

James Hamilton, 
b. circa 171U; 
d. Aug. 14, 1783; 
unm. 



Andrew 
d. Sept., 1747; m. 



Andrew Hamilton, 
b. .Jan. 12. 1742/3; m. .Jan. C, 1768, 



d. Nov. 22, 1784; 



Abigail Franks 

(dau. of David and Ms< 

b. Jan. 6, 1744/5; d. Sej 



I 

Margaret Hamilton, 
b. Oct. 4, 1768; 
d. Jan, 1828. 
unm. 



I 

Ann Hamilton, 
b. TJec. 16, 1769; 
d. Aug. 12, 1798; 
m. Oct. 17, 1792, 
James Lyle. 



I 

Mary Hamilton, 
b. Aug. 1, 1771; 
d. Apr., 1849; 
unm. 



Nlarv Lyle, 
b.'jan. 22, 1796; d. Nov. 21. 1829; 
m. Nov. 12. 1818, Henry Beckett. 

Ellen Lvle, 
b. Oct' 21, 1797; d. Feb. 8, 1852; 
m. Dec. 15, 1818. Hartman Kuhn. 



8 ANN (BROWN) PREESON, 



wid. of Joseph Preeson and dau. of 
Thomas and Susanna Brown. 
d. circa 1736. 



I 

Margaret Hamilton, 
d. May 13, 1760; 
m. Feb. 16, 1733/4, 
William .\llen 
(issue). 



I 

William Hamilton, 
b. Apr. 29, 1745; 
d. Jime 5, 1813; 
unm. 



I 

Andrew Hamilton, 
b. Nov. 4, 1776; 
d. Mav 16, 1825; 
m. June 11, 1817, 
I Eliza Urquhart. 



I 

Franks Hamilton, 
b. May 22, 1779; 
d. Aug. 14, 1798; 
unm. 



I 

Rebecca Hamilton, 
b. Nov. 7, 1783; 
d. Feb. 2, 1842; 
m. Nov. 28, 1809, 

Francis Lewis O'Bierne 
(issue). 



ilamilton, 

ius Henrv Palairet. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



79 



Virginia — afterwards in Kent-counlv, Maryland. ^ He is said to have had charge of 
an Estate; and to have kept a Classical School. Tie married afterwards a 
lady of some fortune, Mrs. Anne. (Brown) widow of Joseph Preeson, connected 
with some of the first families in Maryland. In the year 1712, he was established 
in Chestertown, as a lawyer, with a handsome practice and great reputation for 
ability.* In that year he was first retained by the agents of William Penn in a suit against 
Berkeley Codd, Esq., of Sussex-county, Delaware, who had disputed some of his Rights 
under the Grant of the Duke of York. It may be remarked as a curious fact that Andrew 
Hamilton, son of the subject of this sketch, married a grand-daughter of Mr. Codd— the 
daughter and heiress of William Till, a gentleman of some consequence in the Colony — 
obtaining with her among other property the IVoodlands Estate, near Philadelphia, after- 
wards so highly improved by his son, William Hamilton. 

It is supposed that the legal studies of Andrew Hamilton, commenced in Great 
Britain, must have been completed in Maryland, where there were, among the officials 
of the Government, several men of considerable legal attainments, and, amongst the 
gentry of the Eastern Shore, some highly educated men. Whatever opportunities these 
afforded, it is certain they were made the most of; and at the age of thirty-six, Andrew 
Hamilton had already attained great reputation and a lucrative practice. But the posi- 
tion of a Colonial lawyer seems in those times to have depended on the favor or license 
of the local authorities; and a call to the English Bar, as a member of the Temple of 
Gray's Inn, was always prized as giving a rank and independence before the Colonial 
Judges, well worth the expense and time of a voyage to England. So Mr. Hamilton 
thought, and with this object he sailed for England in the year 1712. The Records of 
Gray's Inn show that he was admitted a member of that learned society on the twenty- 
seventh of January, 1712, where he is designated as Mr. Andretv Hamilton of Maryland, 
and on the tenth of February of the same year, he was, per favor, called to the Bar, which 
means, without keeping the usual Terms, though not, it is to be inferred, without proof of 
character and learning in the Law. 

He soon after returned to America and removed to Philadelphia. Here his abilities 
gained him the first position at the Bar and a large practice. When appointed a member 



it. The Assembly met on April 26, but Hamilton did not appear until May 4, after the sergeant-at-arms had 
been sent for him. He excused himself with the plea that, when the Legislature came together, he was 
engaged as counsel in an important case before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and so was far from his 
Chester River plantation. The delegates did not accept his excuse, but fined Hamilton forty-five shillings for 
his absence. They put him at once, however, on the Committee of Laws. Just what share the eminent 
lawyer had in the statutes passed at this session is uncertain, but it is interesting to see that his committee was 
so successful in its work of codification that the forty-six chapters of the act of 17 r5 ' formed the substratum 
of the statute law of the Province, even down to the Revolution, and the subsequent legislation of the Colony 
effected no verv material alterations of general law then established.' 

" During the next two years Hamilton gave up his Maryland residence and became an inhabitant of 
Pennsylvania. The records of Shrewsbury Parish, in which Millington lies, have been examined, but show no 
mention of Hamilton, so probably his son James was born in Virginia, before Hamilton removed from that 
Colony. At some time while a resident of Kent County, Hamilton added to his landed property by buying a 
neighboring plantation called ' Partnership,' containing two hundred and eighty-five acres. At the time of his 
removal to Philadelphia, Hamilton left his property in the hands of Gilbert Falconar. On September 16, 1717, 
Falconar bought Hamilton's land for four hundred and thirty-five pounds current money of America. Mrs. 
Anne Hamilton, by writing endorsed on the deed, formally gave up her dower rights to the lands. The deed 
was recorded on June 16, 1718, and closes the connection of Hamilton with MaryXanA."— Pennsylvania 
Magazine, vol. xx., p. 405.] 

3 [The printer Zenger also lived for a time in Kent County ; for some account of this, see " Andrew 
Hamilton and John Peter Zenger," by Bernard C. SXameT.— Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xx., p. 405.] 

* ["At a meeting of the Commissioners the 7th of the nth mo., 1712/13. The Board .... concluded 
that an Express be immediately Sent to Andrew Hamilton, a Lawyer in Cecil County, Maryland, who Gen- 
erally attends our Courts below, to Engage him in the Cause." Minutes of the Board of Property of the 
Province of Pennsylvania ; concerning case of quit rents due from " Berkly Codd who married the Widow 
of Luke Watson, Junior."—" Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. xix., p. 543.] 



8o THE ANCESTRY OF 



of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania,^ he accepted on condition that his attendance 
should not interfere with his practice; and he appears rarely if ever to have taken his 
seat in that body. He had previously been appointed, in 1717, attorney-general of the 
Province," which office he resigned in 1726, before his second visit to England, which was 
of considerable length. 

After his return on the fifth of June, 1727, he received from Governor Gordon, the 
lucrative post of Prothonotary,' made vacant by the death of Mr. Ashton, in considera- 
tion not only of his legal qualifications, but also of " the considerable service he had done 
to the Proprietors in this Province and country." 

In April, 1728, we find he was Recorder of the City of Philadelphia; ^ and. in Novem- 
ber, 1737. he was appointed by Governor Thomas, Judge of Vice-admiralty," which office 
it is supposed he held until his death, his judicial functions not appearing to interfere with 
his practice in other Courts. 

In the year 1727, he was elected a member of the House of Assembly from Bucks- 
county; 10 and he was returned to the same seat for twelve successive years. He im- 
mediately took a leading part in public afTairs, was Chairman of the most important Com- 
mittees, the author of most of the Addresses of the Governor, to the Proprietors, and to 
the English Government; and the draughtsman of the Acts of Assembly. 

In October, 1729, he was elected Speaker; and with the exception of the year 1733. 
he filled the chair uninterruptedly till his final retirement in 1739-^'^ On one occasion, at 
least, he received the unanimous vote of the members. Every mark of their confidence 
seems to have been bestowed. He was appointed a Trustee of the Loan Office, and en- 
trusted with the building and disbursements for the State House — sacred to us, and to all 
Americans, as the Hall of Independence. It appears that although Messrs. Lawrence and 
Graeme were of the Committee, that the designs were furnished and entirely carried out 
by Mr. Hamilton. 12 This appears to have been to the public satisfaction; and although 
the exterior cannot boast of much architectural grandeur, i^ the interior, especially the 
entrance hall and staircase, have been much praised by good judges. The other apart- 
ments might be, if their original panelings and decorations had not been many years ago 
barbarously removed — unluckily before Colonel Trumbull's picture of the Signers of the 
Declaration was sketched — or we might have a representation of the Hall as it was in July, 
1776. The tradition is. that it was richly carved and in the finest style. An attempt was 
made to restore it, about forty years ago. and some little fragments of ornamental work 
were found in the .cellars of the building, which may be seen over the smaller doors, but 
give little idea of the pristine appearance of this hallowed apartment — the dignity of wjiich 
is departed, and the proper associations nearly effaced. 

The respect and confidence of his colleagues were not purchased by any unworthy 
compliances. While, at all times, advocating every inherited and chartered Right, and 
promoting every measure of public utility, he never was ranked in the soi-disant popular 
anti-proprietary party; and his constant opposition to Sir William Keith was justified by 
the developments of the character and objects of that mercenary and factious man. Such 
was the verdict of public opinion in Pennsylvania. 



s [" Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix., p. 624; ^Ibid., p. 631 ; "< Ibid., p. 699; *'Ibid., p. 698 ; 
9 Ibid., p. 632.] 

1" [" Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix., pp. 758, 759, 760.] 
" [Ibid., pp. 637, 758, 759] 

12 [" Dr. KearsU'v conceived a plan for die State House, and submitted it to his colleagues, but so also 
it appears did Mr. Hamilton. That of the latter was preferred and adopted by the majority of the committee. 
The plan adopted included alone the present main or central building (the State House proper), and was 
designed to accommodate the Assembly, the Supreme Court, and the Governor's Council only. It fell to 
Mr. Speaker Hamilton, personally to carry out the design of the noble building he had planned."— " An 
Historical Account of the Old State House," by Frank M. Etting, 1891.] 

13 The original facade, with the arcades connectmg the wings, had a much better effect than the present 
unsightly offices of " The Row." 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 8i 

On taking leave of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, in the year 1739, when, ov^ing to 
his growing infirmities, he declared his intention of declining all further public service, 
he said: — ^* 

" Gentlemen: 

" As the service of the Country should be the only motive to induce any man to take 
upon him the Country's Trust, which none ought to assume who find themselves incapable 
of giving such a constant attendance as the Nature of so great Trust reciuires; and as you 
are Witnesses of the frequent Indispositions of Body I have so long laboured under, partic- 
ularly during the winter season (the usual Time of doing Business here) and being appre- 
hensive that, by Reason of my Age and Infirmities, which daily increase, I may be unable 
lo discharge the Duty expected from a Member of Assembly; I therefore hope that these 
Considerations alone, were there no others, will appear to you sufficient to justify the 
Determination I am come to, of declining the farther service of the Province in a Repre- 
sentative Capacity. 

"As to my Conduct, it is not for me to condemn or commend it: Those who have 
sat here from time to time during my standing, and particularly these several Gentlemen 
present, who were members when I first came into the House (whom I now see with 
Pleasure) have the Right to judge of my Behaviour, and will censure or approve of it as 
it has deserved. But, whatever that may have been, I know my own Intentions, and that 
I ever had at Heart the Preservation of Liberty, the Love of which, as it first drew me 
to, so it constantly prevailed upon me to reside in this Province, tho' to the manifest Preju- 
dice of my Fortune. 

" But (waiving all Remarks of a private Nature, which Reflections of this kind might 
naturally, and justly lead me into) I would beg Leave to observe to you. That it is not to 
the Fertility of our Soil, and the Commodiousness of our Rivers, that we ought chiefly to 
attribute the great Progress this Province has made, within so small a Compass of Years, 
in Improvements, Wealth, Trade, and Navigation, and the extraordinary Increase of Peo- 
ple, who have been drawn hither from almost every Country in Europe; a Progress which 
much more antient Settlements on the Main of America cannot at present boast of, No, 
it is principally and almost wholly owing to the Excellency of our Constitution, under 
which we enjoy a greater share both of civil and religious Liberty than any of our Neigh- 
bours. 

" It is our great Happiness that instead of Tri-ennial Assemblies, a Privilege which 
several other Colonies have long endeavoured to obtain, but in vain, ours are annual; 
and for that Reason, as well as others, less liable to be practised upon, or corrupted, either 
with Money or Presents. We sit upon our own Adjournments, when we please, and 
as long as we think necessary, and are not to be sent a Packing, in the middle of a Debate, 
and disabled from representing our just Grievances to our Gracious Sovereign, if there 
should be Occasion, which has often been the hard fate of Assemblies in other Places. 

"We have no Ofificers but what are necessary; none but what earn tluir salaries, 
and those generally are either elected by the People, or appointed by their Representatives. 

" Other Provinces swarm with unnecessary Officers, nominated by the Governors, 
who often make it a main Part of their Care to support those Officers (notwithstanding 
their oppressions.) At all events, I hope it will ever be the wisdom of our assemblies 
to create no great Ofiices or Officers, nor indeed any Officer at all, but what is really 
necessary for the Service of the Country, and to be sure to let the People, or their Repre- 
sentatives, have at least, a share in their Nomination or Appointment. This will always he a 



» The Records of the Assembly, under date of " 6th mo. 11, 1739 " are as follows : " And the house 
being about to adjourn, the Speaker addressed himself to them in the following speech, a Copy whereof, on 
Request, he delivered to the Clerk, and it was 

"Resolved, upon Motion, that the same be inserted in the minutes of the House." (Votes and Proceed- 
ings, vol. iii., p. 349 [H. G. J.] ) 



82 THE ANCESTRY OF 

good security against tlie mischievous Influence of Men holding Places at the Pleasure of 
tlic Governor. 

" Our foreign Trade and Shipping are free from all Imports, except the small 
Duties payable to His Majesty by the Statute Laws of Great Britain. The Taxes which 
we pay for carrying on the Publick Service is inconsiderable, for the sole Power of raising 
and disposing of the Publick Money for the Support of Government is lodged in the As- 
sembly, who appoint their own Treasurer, and to them alone he is accountable. Other 
incidental Taxes are assessed, collected and applied by Persons annually chosen by the 
People themselves. Such is our happy State as to Civil Rights. 

" Nor are we less happy in the enjoyment of a perfect Freedom as to Religion. By 
many Years Experience, we find that an Equality among religious Societies, without dis- 
tinguishing any one Sect with greater Privileges than another, is the most effectual Method 
to discourage Hypocrisy, promote the Practice of the moral virtues, and prevent the 
Plagues and Mischiefs that always attend religious squaLT.ling. 

" This is our Constitution, and this Constitution was framed by the wisdom of 
Mr. Penn, the first Proprietor and Founder of the Province, whose Charter of Privileges 
to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania will ever remain a Monument of his Benevolence to 
Mankind and reflect more lasting Honour on his Descendants than the largest Possessions. 
In the Framing of this Government, he reserved no Powers to himself or his Heirs to 
oppress the People; no Authority but what is necessary for our Protection, and to hinder 
us from falling into Anarchy; and therefore, (supposing we could persuade ourselves that 
all our Obligations to our great Law-giver, and his honourable Descendants, were en- 
tirely cancelled, yet) our own Interests should oblige us carefully to support the Gov- 
ernment on its present Foundation, as the only means to secure to ourselves and our Pos- 
terity the enjoyment of those Privileges, and the Blessings flowing from such a Constitu- 
tion, under which we cannot fail of being happy, if the Fault be not our own. 

" Yet I have observed, that in former Assemblies there have been Men who have 
acted in such a Manner as if they utterly disregarded all those inestimable Privileges, and 
(whether from private Pique and personal Dislike, or thro' Mistake, I will not determine) 
have gone great Lengths in risking our Happiness, in the Prosecution of such Measures 
as did not at all square with the Professions they frequently made of their Love to our 
Government. 

" When I reflect on the several struggles which many of us, now present, have 
had with those Men, in order to rescue the Constitution out of their Hands, which, thro' 
their Mistakes (if the'y were Mistakes) was often brought on the Brink of Destruction; I 
cannot help cautioning you, in the most earnest Manner, against all personal Animosity 
in publick Consultations, as a Rock, which, if not avoided, the Constitution will at some 
Time or other infallibly split upon. 

" But there is no Room for Applications of that Kind at present. It is with Delight 
I see this Session of Assembly end in a Manner very dift'erent from what was expected 
in the Beginning of the Year. The principal Business has been carried on with so good 
an Agreement among the Members of the House, and so little Difference in Sentiments 
l)etween our Governor and the People, that it cannot but yield a sensible Pleasure to all 
who wish well to this Province. 

"As this. Gentlemen, is likely to be the last Time I may trouble you with any- 
thing in this Place, I hope you will the more easily pardon the Liberties I have taken; and 
that you will farther permit me here to acknowledge my Obligations to that County, which 
has so often elected me for one of their Representatives; and at the same time to assure 
you, that I shall always retain a grateful Sense of the great Confidence so long reposed in 
me, and the Honour so frequently conferred upon me by many successive Assemblies, 
in calling me to the Chair of this honoin-able House." 

Contemporaneously with his occupancy of his seat in the Pennsylvania Assembly, 
as its Speaker, Andrew Hamilton filled, for one or more years, the satne place in the 
Three Lower Counties — now the State of Delaware. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 83 



This has been only ascertained from the published Laws of Delaware, printed by 
Franklin, in 1741. Some of the most elaborate and important of these Statutes have the 
signature of Andrew Hamilton, as Speaker; but these are without date or year of the 
King's reign, but being executed under the administration of Governor Gordon, must date 
before the year 1737, when he was superceded by Governor Thomas. Among these acts 
are those for regulating Elections; for securing the administration of Estates; for the 
confirmation of Titles to land and for establishing Courts of Law and Equity; and these 
were all, without doubt, drafted by Mr. Hamilton; and have been cited as evidence of his 
great ability, by eminent lawj^ers. 

The Records of Delaware, however, of that period, have not been preserved at the 
public offices; and the search for the name of Andrew Hamilton in their legislative and 
judicial proceedings, has been entirely fruitless. 

The following letter from the Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Three Lower 
Counties gives evidence of his having been employed in similar services at a much earlier 
date: 

" Sir, 

"The Representatives of this Government in Assembly met, being truly sensible 
of the services you have this session done, have commanded me to return you their hearty 
Thanks for the same — which in their names & my own I most sincerely do — and at the 
same Time lay hold of the Opportunity to subscribe with Pleasure, 

" ¥■■ most humble Serv*- 

" March 15th, 1726 " John ffrench, Speaker. 

" To Andrew Hamilton, Esq. 

" These." 

Of his professional attainments and ability, only traditional and fragmentary evi- 
dences remain to this day, except his celebrated argument in the Zenger Case, which has 
procured for him a place in the History of Liberty and has been called by Gouverneur 
Morris the " Day Star of the Revolution," ^^ as it unquestionably awakened the public 
mind throughout the Colonics to a conception of the most sacred rights as Citizens and 
as subjects of a Free Country. 

The speech, which was repeatedly printed in England as well as America, may be 
commended more for the bold enunciation of principle than for the accumulation of 
learned citations and for its argument from precedents; but it uses its authorities with 
masterly skill, and deals crushing blows to the Prosecution and the Court. It justly es- 
tablishes its author's fame as the first lawyer of his time in the British Provinces; and we 
have besides the abounding evidence of his high consideration by his professional Brethren 
in the neighboring Provinces, where his opinions were constantly sought for. 

He was in the employ of the Proprietary family, from his removal to Philadelphia 
till his death; and in the difificulties with Lord Baltimore he was particularly useful. i« 
At every step taken in this tedious controversy, he seems to have been consulted; and 
served in various Commissions to meet the Maryland Authorities in framing the Terms 
of Agreement, in 1732, upon which the Case was brought before the Privy Council by 
Mr. Murray, afterwards the celebrated Lord Mansfield; and in preparing the materials 



15 [" Philadelphia, 10 March 1770. . . . They have only a Captain Macdougall prisoner at New York 
for libellous productions. He is to take his trial in about a month. The booksellers are publishing copies of 
the trial of one Zenger at New York many years ago, for such another affair ; on which occasion the father 
of Governor Hamilton gained aiuazing honour by his pleadings in defence of the liberty of the Press."— 
Letter in Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. ix., p. 493] 

16 [" I am very sorry the dispute you have with Lord Baltimore is not likely to be brought to an issue. 
. . . . Had Mr. Hamilton's advice been .strictly pursued relating to the disputes with theprovince of Maryland, 
I am of opinion our province would have come off with more credit and reputation."— Judge Jeremiah Lang- 
horne to John Penn, May 20, 1737, Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. vii., p. 77.] 



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of the Brief upon wliich it was finally suljmitted. after his death, to the Court of Chancery, 
Mr. Hamilton not only exerted the most untiring industry, but exhibited marked ability; 
and the gratitude of his employers was shown by their more than ordinary remuneration 
for his services. The Estate of Bush Hill, forming part of the present City of Philadel- 
phia, and comprising the whole space from \'ine-strcct to Coates-street, and from Twelfth- 
street to Nineteenth-street, was carved out of the manor of Springettsbury, and granted 
by the advice of James Logan to the great lawyer. On this, he erected a spacious and 
stately mansion in which he died. Here, his son. Governor Hamilton, long exercised 
a generous hospitality; ;'.nd here, too, John Adams resided during his Vice-presidency. 
It was burned about sixty years ago; but the walls, still standing, were restored on a 
sadly debased shape, forming part of a floor-cloth manufactory, and since converted to 
other uses. There is a poorly engraved view of it in the Universal Magazine, December, 
1787, with Its out-houses, giving a higher idea of its magnitude than of its architectural 
beauty. 

Andrew Hamilton also acquired a noble estate in Lancaster-county. The town 
plot of the City of Lancaster was laid out on this property, in 1728; and the ground rents 
reserved, yielded, for a long time, an inc6me to his descendants, till popular policy was 
roused against that kind of tenure; and, although the appeal of the Tenants to an incor- 
rupt and unterrified Judiciary was in vain, the family were induced to cede their estab- 
lished rights on Hberal terms of compromise. The parts of the Bush Hill Estate sold 
have enriched several members of the family, who still retain a considerable portion of it. 
Besides these estates, they had lands in New Jersey; and the valuable city property 
bounded by Chestnut and Third-streets and the Dock Creek, where a mansion, described 
in Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, as Clarke's Great house, was the birth-place of Gov- 
ernor Hamilton. It was afterward sold to and inhabited by Israel Pemberton, the leading 
member of the Friends' Meeting at the time of the Revolution; and, under the Adminis- 
tration of General Washington, it was occupied by Alexander Hamilton, as the Treasury 
Department of the United States. 

Andrew Hamilton's visit to England, between the years 1724 and 1726. was probably 
connected with the great Penn and Baltimore case; but no trace can, it is believed, now be 
found of his appearance as a Barrister at the English Court, tho' this is not impossible. 
The opportunity was however given for an acquaintance with Mr. Murray and the other 
great Lawyers of the day; and was no doubt the occasion referred to, in his defense of 
Zenger, when he " saw the practice of very great Courts." ^" Sir Philip Yorke, afterward 
the great Lord Hardwicke, was then the leader of the English Bar; and Mr. Hamilton 
might have been present at the famous trial of Lord Chancellor Macclesfield. 

In America, we find traces of his employment in the Courts of several Colonies; and 
his opinion was often sought for by different Provincial Governors, in matters of political 
or pecuniary importance. At home he probably had a part in every important case. His 
great success excited envy and stimulated calumny. The party leaders he opposed and 
frustrated, the rival lawyers whose ignorance and incompetence he exposed, the unfor- 
tunate litigants whom he disappointed, all were his enemies, or, at least, ready to listen to 
Iiis detractors. There exist in print some most abusive attacks upon him, the scurrility 
of which is alone fatal to their credit — which contain no definite charges; and which are 
contradicted by all we know of him. The chief accusation was a grasping spirit and dis- 
honesty in his practice. The latler charge is impossible, for he had the respect of all the 
best men in the Colony. As ?. contradiction to the latter, we may invoke his noble dis- 
interestedness in the case of Zenger, when " he ofifer'd to go to New York without fee 
or reward under the weight of many years & great infirmities of body," to advocate the 
great cause of Civil Liberty. With a professional reputation already established, a for- 
tune already acquired, he appeared before a Court which had already prejudged his case 
and a provincial jury very likely to be intimidated by the frowns of authority, to assert 



^^Zenger's Report of his Trial, p. 25. 



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the great Right of Freedom of the Press, without which most other Rights would be 
valueless. 

Preceding, by fifty years, the great English lawyer who finally established this prin- 
ciple of Liberty, he had used the same course of argument and we may justly claim for 
him the larger share of honor — an honor also to be given to the honest jury. In those 
days there was no small courage required to oppose the authorities in a King's Colony, 
where so much depended on royal favor. 

Andrew Hamilton died at Bush Hill, in the summer of 1741, and was buried in the 
family grave-yard on the Estate; but on its sale, his remains, with those of his children, 
were removed to a spacious mausoleum in Christ Church-yard, which was closed on the 
last of his name in 1848. 

His children were James Hamilton, who, by two appointments, and for many years, 
was Lieutenant-governor of Pennsylvania — a gentleman of great dignity and private worth; 
distinguished for liberality and independence; the only native Governor before the Revo- 
lution; and probably the most esteemed by his countrymen, as well as the Proprietary 
family. He was one of the early patrons of Benjamin West, by whom there is a very 
fine full-length portrait now in the possession of his collateral descendant, Mr. Hamilton 
Beckett, who married a daughter of Lord-chancellor Lyndhurst and resides in England. 
He patronized and encouraged all public enterprises; and was the President of the Amer- 
ican Philosophical Society before its union with the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 
Knowledge, under the auspices of Dr. F'ranklin. James Hamilton died in the year 1782. 
His brother, Andrew Hamilton, married a daughter of William Till, Esq.; 1** and their son, 
William, was distinguished as probably the earliest collector of Pictures and cultivator of 
ornamental gardening. In his day, there was no country seat equal to the IJ'oodlaiids, for 
trees and shrubbery and plants imported from every region; for Pictures, many of them 
selected by West; and other objects of taste. In the Cemetery, to which it is now con- 
verted, there are few remains of its picturesque beauties; and the gloomy appropriation 
makes a sad contrast to the hospitalities and gaieties of which it was the scene, within the 
recollection of the writer. William Hamilton, the younger, like his uncle, the Governor, 
never married. His brother, Andrew, married to Miss Abigail Franks, daughter of David 
Franks of New York, had a numerous family, who had descendants; but there are none 
of the name now living. A fourth Andrew Ftamilton in succession, lived in England; and 
his daughter married a Captain Palairet. of the British Army, whose children have in their 
possession, the gold box in which the freedom of the City of New York was presented 
to their ancestor, " for his learned and generous deiense of the Rights of Mankind and 
the Liberty of the Press." 

The only daughter of Andrew Hamilton, the elder, was married to William Allen, 
who filled the ofifice of Provincial Chief-justice with great respectability. He probably 
owed his professional education to his wife's accomplished father, and his official promo- 
tion to the influence of Mr. Hamilton. He was a man of great wealth; and his children 
had the most prominent places in our provincial society. One of his daughters married 
John Penn, son of Richard, the last Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania, who built and 
resided at Lansdowne. one of the finest seats on the river Schuylkill. He died at Philadel- 
phia, and is buried at Christ Church. He had no children; and his widow went to Eng 
land, soon after the Revolution. The sons of Chief-justice Allen were all supposed to take 
the part of England, in the War of Independence; and some of them were seriously impli- 
cated. Those who survived the War abandoned their native country, and left, I believe, 
no sons; and the name of Allen, as that of Hamilton, is now extinct. The Borough of 
Allentown, in Northampton (now Lehigh) County, takes its name from them, as it was the 
centre of their immense family possessions. It is believed there is nothing left of this 
great estate to the descendants, in the fen^ale line, still among us. 

The foregoing are all the facts that can now be collected of the first Andrew Ham- 



is [The name incorrectly given in original as Fell has been changed by tiie compiler to Till.] 



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ilton. After the space of fuur general ions, traditions of character are rarely preserved; 
but there is happily in existence, an ol^ituary notice, attributed to Dr. Franklin, printed, 
at all events, in his paper, which, if it errs on the side of eulogy, can hardly be without a 
substantial basis of truth. Such a character would else be only satire in disguise. 

The Obituary referred to appeared ni the rcnnsylroiiia Gazette, of August [i74i] ^^ 
as follows: 

" On the Fourth instant, died Andrew Hamilton, Esq., and was next day interred 
at Bush Hill, his Country Seat. His Corpse was attended to the grave by a great number 
of his friends, deeply effected with their own but more with their Country's loss. He 
lived not without enemies; for, as he was himself open and honest, he took pains to un- 
mask the hypocrite, and boldly censured the knave, without regard to station or pro- 
fession. Such, therefore, may exult in his death. He steadily maintained the Cause of 
liberty; and the laws made during the time he was Speaker of Assembly, which was many 
years, will be a lasting monument of his affection to the people, and of his Concern for 
the welfare of this Province. He was no friend to power, as he had observed an ill-use 
had been frequently made of it in the Colonies and therefore was seldom on good terms 
with the Governors. This prejudice, however, did not always determine his conduct 
towards them, for, when he saw they meant well, he was for supporting them honourably, 
and was indefatigable in endeavouring to remove the prejudices of others. He was long 
at the top of his profession here; and had he been as griping as he was knowing, he might 
have left a much greater fortune to his family than he has done. But he spent much 
more time in hearing and reconciling differences in private, (to the loss of his fees,) than 
he did in pleading cases at the bar. He was just when he sat as Judge, and though he 
was stern and severe in his manner, he was compassionate in his nature, and very slow 
to punish. He was a tender husband and a fond parent. But these are virtues which 
fools and knaves have sometimes, in common with the wise and honest. His free manner 
of treating religious subjects gave offence to many, who, if a man may judge from their 
actions, were not themselves much m earnest. He feared God, loved mercy, and did 
justice. If he could not subscribe to the Creed of any particular Church, it was not for 
want of considering them all, for he had read much on religious subjects. He went 
through a tedious sickness with uncommon cheerfulness, constancy and courage. Nothing 
of affected bravery or ostentation appeared; but such a composure and tranquility of mind 
as results from the reflection of a life spent agreeably to the best of man's judgment.-" He 



^^ [ By error this date appears in the original as 1751.] 

""The reference to Andrew Hamilton's want of religious faith in the above Obituary, suggests a quota- 
tion from a MS. satirical production of the year 1727, in which many of the more eminent of that day in the 
Province are catalogued with considerable ironical humour : 

" It is called, Advice and Instruction to the Palatines Neioly Arrived in the Province of Pennsylvania, 
by Their Countryman H. J. Z.,a Freeholder, translated from the High Dutch 
"The list terminates with the three following : 

" If you are staggering in your Faith and desire to be confirmed in the Relief of the Christian Religion, 
seek ghostly counsel from A w H n. 

" If you would desire strict Justice in your Lawsuits let honest D d L d be your Judge. 

"If you would learn the art of Dissimulation to impose on the Ignorant, make fine speeches and 
promise without any meaning; borrow of everybody without any intention to pay ; cheat all you deal with, 
and nevertheless be a fine Gentleman, follow the examjile of Sir W m. 

"If you desire to possess a perfect calmness of thought — to sleep sound and enjoy a good measure of 
health — drink hard, laugh loud and run deeply in debt." 

The whole may be found inserted in a folio volume of tracts and broadsides of great rarity, belonging 
to the American Philosophical Society. It may be presumed that the "advice to the Palatines" was never 
printed. Its authorship has been attributed to Franklin. 



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preserved his understanding and liis regard for his friends to the last moment. What was 
given as a rule by a poet, upon another occasion, may be justly applied to him upon this: 

• • • • Servetur ad imum 

Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet." 

Finding himself unable to do justice to the professional and public services of this 
great lawyer and statesman, Andrew Hamilton, the writer applied to his friend the learned 
Judge Cadwalader, as of all our Juris-consults, the one most familiar with judicial his- 
tory of the Province, and at the same time, best able to estimate at their true value the 
professional ability and attainments as well as the public services of this almost forgotten 
patriot and statesman; and he is permitted to extract from Judge Cadwalader's answer the 
following pages. In those preceding, Judge Cadwalader had given some memoranda for 
the private and family history of Mr. Hamilton, to which the composition of the above 
nnperfect biographical sketch is partly indebted. 

Judge Cadwalader writes: "After the above hasty outline of the little biographical 
knowledge of Mr. Hamilton which I possess, I proceed to answer directly your inquiry 
what is my opinion of him as a lawyer. 

" This opinion is formed solely upon consideration of his argument in Zenger's 
case. This trial, we are told, 'made a great noise in the world.' (17 State Trials, 675 
(n),) 21 That which principally made it remarkable was the argument of Mr. Hamilton 
and its effect. The novelty, in his day, of some of his propositions and of the reasoning 
by which he supported them, explains the ill-natured contemporaneous criticisms of his 
argument in certain publications inserted in the State Trials. The authors of great 
reformations are always thus censured by the short-sighted of their own day. These criti- 
cisms were written before the impression of his views had been stamped, as it has sub- 
sequently been, upon the institutions of a nation. Reform, through legislation, may be 
efifected with little difBculty as compared with administration reformation of jurisprudence 
without legislative aid. The advocate who can efifect the latter, especially where political 
considerations are involved, must be a mental giant. One great excellence of the system 
of trial by jury is, that it affords the means of gradually producing such formations without 
revolutionary perils. Propositions in this argument, which were, strictly speaking, un- 
tenable as points of Anglo-American Colonial law, prevailed, nevertheless, at that day, 
with the jury. These propositions have been since engrafted permanently upon the po- 
litical jurisprudence of this Continent. If that speech to the jurors who acquitted Zenger 
had never been uttered, or had not been reported, the framers of the Constitutions of the 
several States might not have been prepared for the adoption of provisions like that of the 
Seventh Section of the Declaration of Rights in Pennsylvania. This provision is ' that 
the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the pro- 
ceedings of the Legislature, or any branch of Government; and no Law shall ever be 
made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is 
one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print 
on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the 



^^ [T/te Pennsylvattia Gazette oi May 11-18, 1738, contains the following letter from London, dated in 
February of 1737/8: 

"We have been lately amused with Zenger's Trial, which has become the common Topic of 
Conversation in all the Coffee-Houses, both at tlie Court End of the Town and in the City. The greatest 
men at the Bar have openly declared, that the sutaject of Libels was never so well treated in ^^\•stml^ster- 
Hall, as at New York. Our political Writers of different Factions, who never agreed in anytliing else, have 
mentioned the Trial in their public Writings with an Air of Rapture and Triumph, a Goliatli in Learnmg and 
Pohtics gave his opinion of Mr. Hamilton's Argument in these terms, If it is not Law it is Better than Law, 
it ought to be Law and will always be Law wherever Justice prevails. The Tryal has been reprinted four 
times in three months, and there has been a greater demand for it, by all ranks and degrees of People, than 
there has been known for any of the most celebrated performances of our greatest Geniuses. We look upon 
Zenger's Advocate, as a glorious Assertor of Public Liberty and of the Rights and Priveleges of Britons."— 
The Pennsylvania Magazitte, vol. xiv., p. 77.] 



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publication of papers investigating tlic official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, 
or wlurc liie matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may 
be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to deter- 
mine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court, as in other cases.' I thus 
quote the Constitution partly in order to introduce a remark upon the well-known British 
Act of rarliament, of the year 1792, which is the same in effect as the last sentence of 
the Constitutional provision. This British statute was passed in consequence of the effect 
upon public opinion produced in England by the speeches, in two previous cases, of a 
celebrated English barrister, afterwards Lord Chancellor. In one of the cases, this Eng- 
lish lawyer had set himself in opposition to the Court, and to its ruling of the law as 
previously laid down in books of Reports, quite as earnestly as Mr. Hamilton in Zenger's 
case, and no less pugnaciously. 

" Mr. Hamilton argued three propositions. One. that the jury have, in prosecutions 
for libels, the same right as in other criminal prosecutions, to determine the law as well as 
the facts under the direction of the Court, has already been mentioned. Another was, 
that as the alleged libel concerned the official conduct of persons acting in public ca- 
pacities, the publication was justifiable if the statements were true. The other was that 
whether they were true or false, the limits of fair discussion of subjects of general public 
interest had not been exceeded. But the last proposition, though argued, was not stated 
by him. It was blended with the other; and he rested the case professionally on the ques- 
tion of truth or falsehood. Whether this was a defect in his argument should be decided 
with a cautious reference to its date. The two propositions which he stated were, in his 
day, thought innovations. To have stated the third proposition distinctively might then 
have been an imprudence. It might have been thought demagoguism. and have injured 
the case of his client. The lights of after born wisdom have been since cast upon this 
part of the subject. Its distinct development was not a duty of the Advocate unless neces- 
sary to the success of the defence. His immediate function was not that of the statesman 
or political philosopher. 

" I do not think that the argument was improved by the references near its close to 
occurrences of Roman history. But these are spots of the sun. I have stated every 
question which a fault-finding critic of the present day could suggest in order to qualify 
the praise due to this argument. As a simple forensic effort it is not surpassed by any- 
thing of the kind which is in print, as having been uttered by Webster, Erskine, or Pinck- 
ncy. The remark of Mr. Hamilton. (17 State Trials. 703) that he had ' seen the practice 
in very great Courts,' might suggest the notion that he had schooled himself upon the 
observation of some great English models of his day, perhaps one of the Yorkes, or a 
Murray. 

" But it is not merely a great forensic effort. It displays accuracy of scientific learn- 
ing, and the result of severe self-discipline as a lawyer. The speech is a sufficient biog- 
laphy of him as a student of legal science. His method of referring to authorities tests 
the depth of his research and the clearness of his judgment not less than the copiousness 
of his intellectual development. Ordinary lawyers work from authorities as their only 
source of professional knowledge. They thus work, as it were, from below upwards. But 
great lawyers look upon the same precedents from above downward, using them as the 
tests, or as examples, of rules or principles deduced from independent and higher sources 
of thought. Of this class was Mr. Hamilton. His learning must have been profound. 
But he made no parade of it. He stated his propositions in such a form as to dispense 
with citations from books; and yet such citations were obviously at his command; and 
he seems to have stated no proposition which he had not previously subjected, in the 
course of private study, to the standard of a rigid comparison with precedents. It is ob- 
vious that he had educated himself in general public law, and was familiar enough with its 
principles to incorporate them with his argument without pausing to state them. If short- 
sighted men of his own day thought him a demagogue, which I do not believe, those of 



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greater forecast must have recognized tlie traits of a statesmanlike lawyer, whose works 
would produce their memorials to be appreciated in a future generation. 

■' I have thus given my opinion of him as a lawyer. You ask also my opinion of 
him as a legislator. He was, I think, of the class of lawyers who usually make the most 
judicious legislators. But I am not able to form any opinion of his actual capacity in this 
respect. I do not know what Laws he may have written, or assisted in writing; and have 
not sufficient means at hand of obtaining the knowledge. I am, however, under the im- 
pression that, in Pennsylvania, the legislation of his era was much less important than 
that of anterior and subsequent periods. 

" All that I have written is the result of investigations made some years ago, which 
are, in part, forgotten, and which I regret that T have not. at this time, leisure particularly 
to review. 

" Yours, very truly, 
" J. Francis Fisher, Esq." " John C.\d\val.\der. 

To this may be added the recollections of the writer of the above Memoir, that there 
were found at the Woodlands, when that family-seat was broken up, many boxes and 
trunks full of legal papers, includnig Briefs and Opinions evincing great learning and 
labor, and indicating extensive practice throughout the Middle Colonies. Much that was 
interesting and valuable might have been rescued; but the writer was at that time too 
young to estimate their worth, and they were left to the ordinary fate of worm-eaten family 
papers. Among the books which had been inherited by Mr. William Hamilton, were a 
few with the name of his grand-father in various departments of literature, some of them 
with annotations in English and Latin, indicative of deep and curious learning. The law 
books had probably passed into the possession of Chief-justice Allen, who married Andrew 
Hamilton's daughter, some of whose sons were also members of the legal profession. 
There was not much learning of any kind among the later representatives of the Hamilton 
name. 

It has not been thought necessary to quote at length the great argument in the 
Case and Trial of John Peter Zcnger, which is to be found in the British State Trials and 
in several pamphlets printed at the time, in England and America — the rarest of which is 
that, in folio, from the press of Zenger himself— New York, MDCCXXXVL The peror- 
ation, embodying the noblest sentiments, and exhibiting some of his peculiar powers as an 
Advocate, is worthy of being reproduced at this time, and is as follows: 

" But why do I go to heathen Rome to bring instances of the love of Liberty? The 
best blood in Britain has been shed in the cause of Liberty; and the freedom we enjoy at 
this day, may be said to be, in a great measure, owing to the glorious stand the famous 
Hampden and other of our countrymen, made against the arbitrary demands and illegal 
impositions, of the times in which they lived; who rather than give up the rights of English- 
men, and submit to pay an illegal tax of no more, I think, than three shillings, resolved to 
undergo, and for the liberty of their country, did undergo the greatest extremities, in that 
arbitrary and terrible Court of Star Chamber, to whose arbitrary proceedings, (it being 
composed of the principal men of the Realm, and calculated to support arbitrary govern- 
ment) no bounds or limits could be set, nor could any other hand remove the evil but a 
Parliament. Power may justly be compared to a great river, which while kept within its 
due bounds, is both beautiful and useful; but when it oversows its banks, it is then too 
impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desola- 
tion wherever it comes. If then this is the nature of Power, let us at least do our duty, 
and like wise men, (who value freedom) use our utmost care to support Liberty,— the only 
bulwark against lawless power, which m all ages has sacrificed to its wild lust and bound- 
less ambition, the blood of the best men that ever lived. 

" I hope to be pardoned. Sir, for my zeal upon this occasion. It is an old and wise 
caution— T/ifl/ 7i'Jicn our neighbours house is on fire, we ought to take care of our ozvn. For 
tho' blessed be God. I live in a Government where Liberty is well understood, and freely 



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enjoyed; yet experience has shown us all (I'm sure it has me) that a bad precedent in one 
Government, is soon set up for an authority in another; and therefore I cannot but think 
it mine and every honest man's duty, that, while we pay all due obedience to men in author- 
ity, we ought at the same time to be upon our guard against power wherever we appre- 
hend that it may effect ourselves or our fellow-subjects. 

■■ I am truly very unequal to such an undertaking on many accounts. And j^ou see 
1 labour under the weight of many years and am borne down with great mfirmities of 
body; yet old and weak as I am, I should think it my duty if required, to go to the utmost 
part of the land, where my service could be of any use in assistmg to quench the llame of 
prosecutions upon Informations, set on foot by the Government, to deprive the people of 
the right of remonstrating (and complaining too) of the arbitrary men in power. Men 
who injure and oppress the people under their administration, provoke them to cry out 
and complain; and then make that very complaint the foundation for new oppressions and 
prosecutions. I wish I could say there were no instances of this kind. But to conclude; 
the question before the Court and you. Gentlemen of the Jury, is not of small nor private 
concern; it is not the case of a poor printer, nor of A^cio York alone which you are trying. 
No! it may in its consequence afYect every freeman that lives under a British Government 
on the main of America. It is the best cause. It is the cause of Liberty, and I make 
no doubt but your upright conduct, this day, will not only entitle you to the love and es- 
teem of your fellow-citizens; but every man who prefers Freedom to a life of Slavery, 
will bless and honour you, as men who have baffled the attempt of tyranny; and by an 
impartial and uncorrupt verdict, have laid a noble foundation for securing to ourselves, our 
posterity, and our neighbours, that, to which nature and the laws of our country have 
given us a right — the Liberty both of exposing and opposing arbitrary power (in these 
parts of the world, at least) by speaking and writing Truth." 

At the close of this remarkable speech, there was considerable sharp discussion 
between " Mr. Attorney," the Judges of the Court, and Mr. Hamilton, the latter of whom 
maintained his position with that manly dignity by which he was ever characterized. 

The Jury then retired; but after a short absence, returned. When asked for their ver- 
dict, the Foreman, Thomas Hunt — whose name deserves to be remembered — said " Not 
Guilty." 

As soon as the verdict was announced, the people, who crowded the Hall where 
the Court was held and were fully aware of the magnitude of the question at stake, and 
strongly sympathized with Zenger, gave " three Huzzas in the Hall," doubtless to the 
great chagrin of the Judges who had confidently anticipated a different result. 

To this pamphlet are appended the proceedings of the Corporation of the City of 
New York, conferring the Freedom of the Corporation. The Grant, which was voted on 
the sixteenth of September, 1735, by the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and 
Assistants, is in the following words and form, viz : 



" City of ) Paul Richards, Esq.; the Recorder, Aldermen and Assistants of the 



New York | City of Nczu York, convened in Common Council, To all to whom these 

Presents shall come. Greeting. 

" 'Whereas, Honour is the just Reward of Virtue and publick Benefits demand a 
publick acknowledgement. We therefore, under a grateful sense of the remarkable ser- 
vice, done to the Inhabitants of this City and Colony, by Andrew Hamilton. Esq., of Penn- 
sylvania, Barrister at Law, by his Learned and generous Defence of the Rights of Man- 
kind, and the Liberty of the Press, in the case of John Peter Zenger, lately tried on an In- 
formation exhibited in the Supreme Court of this Colony, do by these Presents, bear to 
the said Andrezv Hamilton, Esq., the publick Thanks of the Freemen of this Corporation 
for that signal service, which he cheerfully undertook under great Indisposition of Body, 
and generously performed, refusing any Fee or Reward; And in Testimony of our great 



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Esteem for his Person and Sense of his Merit, do hereby present him with the Freedom 
of this Corporation. These are therefore to Certify and Declare, that tlie said Andrew 
Hamilton, Esq., is hereby admitted, received and allowed a Freedom and Citizen of the 
said City, To Have, Hold, Enjoy and Partake of all the Benefits, Liberties, Privileges, 
Freedoms and Immunities, whatsoever granted or belonging to a Freeman of the said 
City. In Testimony whereof the Common Council of the said City, in Common Council 
assembled, have caused the Seal of the said City to be hereunto affixed this Twenty Ninth 
Day of September, Anno Domini, One Thousand Sez'en Hundred and Thirty Five. 

" By Order of the Common Council, 

" William Sharpas, Clerk." 

At the same time, as is recorded, " Sundry of the Members of the Corporation and 
Gentlemen of the City voluntarily contributed sufficient for a Gold Box of five Ounces 
and a half for inclosing the Seal of the said Freedom," which being completed as desired, 
Alderman Bayard, on behalf of the Corporation, proceeded to Philadelphia and delivered 
to Mr. Hamilton the Diploma with the Seal enclosed in the Gold Box — which is still 
preserved as an heirloom by the children of Captain Palairet, who married a daughter of 
Andrew Hamilton — the fourth of that name in direct descent, and the last in the line 
of males. 

Round the lid of the box there is engraved, not only the Arms of the City of New 
York, but also this Motto, in a Garter: 

DEMERS.E LEGES — TIMEFACTA LIBERTAS — H.'P.C TANDEM EMERGUNT. 

On the inner side of the lid of the box, showing itself at the same time with the 
Certificate of the Freedom, there are engraven, in a flying Garter, these words: 

NON NUMMIS — VIRTUTE TARATUR. 

As an incentive to public virtue, on the front of the rim of the box, there is en- 
graved a part of Tully's wish: 

ITA CUIQUE EVENI.A.T, UT DE REFUBLXCA MERUIT. 

In conclusion, it may be mentioned that there exists a Portrait of Andrew Hamilton, 
a fine picture by WertmuUer, copied from a rude original which was destroyed — a hand- 
some shrewd face, in the wig. gown, and bands of an English Barrister. The original 
was in the possession of Mr. Becket; and a copy is preserved in the Hall of the Historical 
Society of Pennsylvania. 

[Note.] 

Zenger had employed as his Coimsel, James Alexander, Esq., and William Smith, 
Esq., two of the most eminent lawyers of New York. On the sixteenth of April, 1735, 
and during the progress of the Trial, the Judges, in a most summary manner, struck their 
names from the list of Attorneys, because they had put in Exceptions, in Zenger's name, 
to the Information, denying the legality of the Judges' Commissions. 

The following letter shows that they were not soon forgiven; and that they, instead 
of Zenger, were the sufferers— a rather unusual result, in legal matters, at least at this day. 

.. „. " New York, July i6th, I737- 

Sir: 

" We think the State of publick affairs here afford some Probability that we may 
have relief in a course of Justice for that act of silencing us in the case of Zenger and as 
you were so kind as to offer us your assistance, we beg leave to send to you herewith a 
draught of a Declaration for your perusal and amendment. 

" We send you also some authorities that we have read on that head which seem 
generally to look against us. There are two distinctions which we think may support our 



92 THEANCESTRYOF 

action, malo aitimo and coram iiuii jndkc. There appear some faint traces of these distinc- 
tions in the autliorities. We wish we had them more plain. 

" Our Judges have valued themselves upon a Dilemma, they thought they had us 
in, viz: If they were Judges, then what they did was in that capacity, and no relief is 
against them for it as such. Jf they were not Judges, then what they did was void and did 
not hinder us from being attorneys, &c. The first draught of the Declaration inclosed, 
and second conclusion we thought would not well enough bring us within the distinctions 
named in that Dilemma. The third conclusion inclosed is an endeavour to amend in 
those points. .Ml wlncli we submit to you, and we desire your opinion whether we ought 
to pay any regard to their quibble or not. 

" We send now a like copy to Mr. Kinsey. We beg you would compare your ob- 
servations and amendments with his, and agree upon one of the Declarations to send back 
to us if conveniently you can by the Post after this, because our Supreme Court begins the 
last Tuesday of this month and ends the first Tuesday of August, in order that we may file 
the Declaration on the Monday before the end of the Term. 

" We are 

"Your Humble Servants, 
" To " Ja. Alexander. 

" Andrew Hamilton, Esq." " Wm. Smith." 



The will of Andrew Hamilton, Esquire, of the city of Philadelphia, in which 
he is described as "being sick," was dated July 31, 1741 ; proved Augustij 
1741. It confirmed to his daughter Margaret lands which he had given her after 
her marriage to William Allen, which were intended as a part of her marriage 
portion, viz., five hundred acres of land lying near the border of Bucks County; 
a lot in Philadelphia adjacent to a lot given her by George Wilcox ; a lot at 
Wiccaco, on the river Delaware ; a piece of pasture containing about nineteen 
acres, and ten acres of swamp meadow, at Wiccaco, in tenure of William Allen. 
He devised to her the bank and water lots, late the estate of Joshua Tittery, 
extending sixty feet from north to south ; a messuage and lot in the tenure of 
Stephen Benezet, extending one hundred and two feet on Second Street ; his 
lots contained in the square between Second, Third, Mulberry and Sassafras 
Streets, which is supposed to be one lot extending sixty-one feet on Third 
Street ; four lots extending fifty-five feet on same street, and parts of two other 
lots contiguous to each other, in length ninety-five feet, one of which is bounded 
by Sassafras Street. 

To grandson John Allen was devised a lot bounded on the west by Fourth, 
and south by Mulberry Street, extending ninety-nine feet in breadth, purchased 
from the heirs of one Richards. To grandson Andrew Allen three messuages 
and lots, lately purchased of John and William Bullock. To grandson James 
Allen his largest silver dish. 

To his son James Hamilton, the lot and messuage where the testator was 
then dwelling, with the groiuul adjacent ; the tract called Bush Hill and lands 
adjacent ; five lots extending about twenty feet each on the west side of Third 
Street in tenure of Hester Banks and W^illiam Bissle ; a lot on Chestnut Street 
purchased of the widow Carpenter, representative of one Townsend ; all lots on 
Chestnut Street, opposite the State House ; all houses and lots on Walnut Street 



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west of the lot of William Hudson, Jr., formerly the estate of the widow Aston 
and her son, except the lot devised to his grandson Andrew Allen ; and ten 
acres of meadow in Wiccaco in tenure of his son James. The choice of two lots 
containing five hundred acres lying near the border of Bucks County, the other 
lot being bequeathed to his son Andrew. Also to son James the bank and water 
lots by Pool's Bridge, purchased of Stephen Jackson ; all the lands in New Castle 
County; the plantation at Powell's Bridge in Kent County, Delaware; the tract 
called the Grove, in the same county, and all lands in New Jersey. 

He further says : " I give and devise the gold box which I had with the seal 
of mv Freedom of the Corporation of the City of New York to my said son 
James Hamilton." To his son James, the negroes, Isaac, the gardener, Nanny 
and her daughter Cis, and the i^oy Jeremiah. 

To his son x-Vndrew Hamilton, for whom he had been at the expense of 
building and erecting storehouses and a wharf, he devised a plantation on the 
Schuylkill River, purchased of Stephen Jackson ; a lot on Walnut Street extend- 
ing ninetv-nine feet in breadth, purchased of heirs of one Jobson ; a lot on Chest- 
nut Street, about forty feet in breadth, purchased of Edward Robinson ; a tract 
of land near Dunk's Ferry, in Bucks County, and the plantation of nine hundred 
acres in Kent County, on Delaware, called Whitehall ; also the negro Gunsman 
and his family, which belonged to the said Andrew by a former gift, hereby 
confirmed. 

His negro woman Sue and her two youngest children were bequeathed to 
Elizabeth Walters, who was living with him. The executors were directed to 
give a negro girl to George Gale, Gent., of Somerset County, Maryland, who 
had married the daughter of Bridget Leatherbury. 

To his sons James and Andrew was devised all his plate. The residue of 
the real estate devised to James. The residue of the personal estate to be 
divided between his two sons and his daughter. Sons James and Andrew and 
William Allen appointed executors. Will witnessed by Abram Taylor, William 
Till, Sept. Robinson and Tench Francis. 

Codicil dated August 2, 1741, "as concerns the vesting and settling the 
lotts, houses and grounds formerly agreed for by me for the use of the province 
I order, nominate, authorize and appoint William Allen of the city of Philada. 
with my son James Hamilton to grant and convey the said lotts, houses and 
grounds to the trustees appointed by act of assembly to receive the same and 
that in fee simple." Witnessed by William Till, Tench Francis and Sept. Robin- 
son. The will was proved August 13, 1741- (Philadelphia Wills, Liber F, folio 
233-) 

Children of Andrew Hamilton and Anne (Brown) Preeson : 

I. James Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, born about i/io: died 
Augu.st 14, 1783; -- unmarried. 



22 James Hamilton, of Bush Hill, was Prothonotarv of Philadelphia, 1733; Member of the Assembly 
for Lancaster County, 1734 ; Common Councilman, Philadelphia, 1739 ; Justice of the Peace, 1741 ; Alderman 
and Associate Justice of the Citv Court, 1741 ; Mavor, 1745 : Member of the Provmcial Council 1745-1776; 
Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, November 23, 1748, to October 3, I7S4. and as President of the Council 



94 THE ANCESTRY OF 

I , 

2. ANDREW HAMILTON, died September, 1747; married December 24, 1741, 

Mary Till. 

3. Margaret Hamilton, died May 13, 1760: married February 16, 1733/4. William 

Allen, born August 5, 1704: died September 6, 1780; son of William Allen 
and Mary Budd.23 

Children: 

i. John Allen, died February, 1778; married April 6, 1775, Mary 
Johnston, daughter of David Johnston, of New York; 
issue. 

ii. Andrew Allen, born June. 1740; died March 7, 1825; married 
.^pril 24, 1768, Sarah Coxe, daughter of William Coxe 
and Mary Francis; issue. 

iii. James Allen, born about 1742; died September 19, 1778; mar- 
ried March 10, 1768; Elizabeth Lawrence,-* daughter of 
John Lawrence and Elizabeth Francis; issue. 



was Governor of the Province, May 4, 1771, to October 16, 1771, and July 19, 1773, to August 30, 1773. He 
was also President of the Board of Trustees of the College of Philadelphia and President of the Philosophical 
Society. (" Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix. ; Martin's " Bench and Bar" ; Keith's " Provincial 
Councillors.") 

The will of James Hamilton, Esq., of Bush Hill, in the County of Philadelphia and Province of 
Pennsylvania, written by his own hand, was dated March 4, 1776, and proved September 15, 1783. He 
devised to his nephew, William Hamilton, Esq., of Philadelphia, the Bush Hill property, containing about 
one hundred and fifty-four acres ; all his lands lying in or near the borough of Lancaster ; three pieces of 
banked marsh lying on the road to Gloucester ferry, in the township of Wiccaco, containing about thirty-two 
acres. To his nephew, James Hamilton, land in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, called Bierlys Tract, 
containing about seven thousand two hundred acres, bought of William Allen and Joseph Turner. 

To each of the children of his nephew, Andrew Hamilton, ;^iSoo, when of age. The interest of ^^7000 
to his nephew, Andrew Hamilton, and upon his decease the principal to his children. To each of his nephews, 
John, Andrew, James and William, sons of William Allen, Esquire, ^1500. To nephew, John Allen, part 
of a lot opposite the State House and also portion of a lot on Minor .Street. To nephews, Andrew, James 
and William Allen, lots on Walnut Street and Fourth Street. To niece, Margaret DeLancy, ^^looo ; to 
niece, Mrs. Penn, three " large China Jarrs and the Beakres." To friend, Francis Hopkinson, Esqr., £^°°- 
Bequest to servant, Matthias Sandham. 

To the first son of nephew, Andrew Hamilton, to come of age, and to nephew, William Hamilton, all 
his plate ; " to the said William Hamilton the Gold Box which was presented to my Honoured Father with 
the Freedom of the Corporation of the City of New York." The graveyard at Bush Hill, " where the 
remains of my Honoured Father are deposited shall be handsomely inclosed and a decent Monument 
Erected to his Memory by my Executors at the Charge of my Estate ; this I always intended to have done in 
my life and much blame myself for having neglected it, but I could never please myself in the manner." 

To nephew William Hamilton the residue of estate, and he with nephews Andrew Hamilton and James 
Allen appointed executors. 

Witnessed by Thomas Cadwalader and Thomas Bond. 

By a codicil, dated March 2, 1779, witnessed by Benjamin Chew and Thomas Cadwalader, the bequest 
to his servant, Matthias Sandham, was revoked. 

A second codicil, dated October 18, 1780, revoked the bequests made to his late nephews, John and 
James Allen, and to thepresent nephews, Andrew and William Allen. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber S, folio 281.) 

By lengthy provisions the real estate devised in this will was carefully entailed, with an evident view of 
retaining the properties in the family. 

^■' William Allen in his time was one of the most prominent men in the Province; was a member of 
Common Council and of the Pennsylvania Assembly ; Alderman ; Mayor ; Judge of the several courts ; 
Recorder, and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, 1750 to 1774. Was one of the first Americans to originate an 
expedition to the Arctic regions to discover the Northwest Passage. He was associated with Andrew Hamilton 
in the building of the .State House and purchased the necessary lots for its site ; member of the Philosophical 
Society; a contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital and a Trustee of the College of Philadelphia. (For 
further account of William Allen and his descendants see the Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. i., p. 202, and 
Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. 140.) 

**See Diary of James Allen, Esq., Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. ix., p. 176. 



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95 



iv. William Allen, born about 1751; died July 2, 1838; unmarried. 
V. Anne Allen, died without issue; married May 31, 1766, John 

Peun, the last Proprietary Governor of Pennsylvania. 
vi. Margaret Allen, died October 18, 1827; married August iq, 

1771, James DeLancey, born 1732; died April 8, 1800; son 

of James DeLancey, Chief Justice and Governor of New 

York; issue. 



VI. 



Andrew Ha.milton, son of Andrew and Anne Hamilton, died September, 
1747; married, December 24, 1741, Mary Till, who died October 18, 1803,-'' in 
the eighty-second year of her age ; daughter of William and Mary Till. 

Andrew Hamilton resided at Third and Walnut Streets.-*' By his father's 
will he received a plantation on the west side of the Schuylkill, which became 
part of " The Woodlands," and was left to his son William. Andrew Hamilton's 
father had erected for him, prior to 1741, warehouses and a wharf. He was 
engaged in an extensive shipping and commission business with William Cole- 
man,-' the partnership continuing until the time of his death. He was a mem- 
ber of the Common Council in 1741 ; -^ succeeded Ralph Assheton as Town Clerk 
of Philadelphia, 1745 ; ^^ was Clerk of the City Court and Court of Quarter Ses- 
sions,^" and a charter member of the Library Company of Philadelphia.^^ 

The will of Andrew Hamilton of the city of Philadelphia, Gentleman, dated 
August 27, 1747, and proved September 14, 1747, devised to his wife Mary his 
house and lot in Walnut Street and the vacant lot extending from the said house 
to the corner of Third Street, containing in depth northward one hundred feet, 
then in the possession of Richard Peters. 

To his son Andrew a bank and water lot extending from Front Street to the 
river Delaware, bounded on the north by lot of Anthony Morris and south by the 
corporation lot, with all the messuages, stores, wharves and buildings thereon, 
and a tract of five hundred acres in Bucks County, which had been given to the 
testator by Jeremiah Langhorne. 

To his son William, his lots on W^alnut and Third Streets, not included in 



25 " Died, last evening, at the Woodlands, in the eighty-second year of her age, Mrs. Mary Hamilton, 
mother of William Hamilton, Esquire."— Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Wednesday morning, 
October ig, 1803. 

2B" After this Congregation was Dismiss'd, Colonel Taylor, Mr. Lewis, &c., of the Levee went to the 
Commissioners' Lodgings, where we found Colonel Lee ready to go to Mr. Andrew Hamilton's where we 
were Invited to Dine this Day ; about a Quarter after i O'clock we had Dinner, and I do assure you a very 
fine one, but as I am not able to draw up a Bill of Fare, I shall only say, that we had very near 18 Dish of 
Meat, besides a very nice Collation." (Journal of William Black, Philadelphia, Sunday, June 3, I744-— 
Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. i., p. 411.) A footnote to the article from which the above is quoted states 
that Andrew Hamilton resided at Bush Hill, which is no doubt a mistake. Bush Hill was at this time in 
the possession of James Hamilton, to whom it had been bequeathed by his father, Andrew Hamilton, Sr. 

"Sale of Sundry Merchandize rec^ from Benj» & William Bell, Thomas Plumsted & Robert Wheatle 
of London. 5 mo. 8, 1745 By Andrew Hamilton 25 Muskets a 26/ 50 cutlasses a 6/ (Account of estate 
of William Bell, Orphans' Court Records, Philadelphia.) 

28 Martin's "Bench and Bar," p. iii ; '^Ibid., p. 112; '"Ibid., pp. 61, 83. 

'^^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxiii., p. 107. 



96 THE ANCESTRY OF 



other bequests, and the plantation on the west side of the Schuylkill, containing 
about three hundred and fifty acres. 

The plantation at Moyamensing to be sold and the money to be paid to his 
wife, to whom he also gives " all my plate which I had lately from England." 
The remainder of the plate to his two sons. To his wife all his household goods 
not otherwise bequeathed. 

To Rebecca Davis and .Sarah Edgell ten i)(nmds each. One-fourth of the 
personal estate was given to his wife and the rest to his sons. To his brother 
James Hamilton, ten acres of meadow land in the Wiccaco marsh. 

His wife, his brother James Hamilton, William Allen and Joseph Turner 
were appointed executors. Witnessed by Richard Peters, Thos. Hopkinson and 
James Gibson. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber H, folio 372.) 

Children of Andrew Hamilton and Mary Till : 

1. ANDREW HAMILTON, born January 12, 17-12/3; died November 22, 1784; mar- 

ried January 6, 1768, Abigail Franks. 

2. William Hamilton, born April 29, 1745; died June S, 1813; "- unmarried. In- 

herited from his father a large plantation on the west side of the Schuyl- 
kill, where he built his home, " The Woodlands," " one of the most 
noted seats in the Province. The entrance was by a gateway 
flanked by imposing lodges. Its ample grounds and beautiful gar- 
dens, abounding in rare and foreign trees, and luscious fruits and 
exquisite flowers, attracted the attention of the cultivated of all tlie Col- 
onies and States, and never did such come to Philadelphia without a 
visit to it." ''3 " During the years of the Revolutionary trouble, William 
Hamilton led the agreeable life of a country gentleman at his hospita- 
ble mansion. He had served for a while in the army at the beginning 
of the war, opposing the unconstitutional acts of the Ministry, but when 
separation from the mother country was aimed at, he shrank from a 
step to which neither inclination nor ambition impelled him. He did 
not. however, escape the suspicion that Iiis heart inclined to a govern- 
ment of which he had nothing to complain; or perhaps there were patri- 
ots who believed they could graces as well as he did so fine a property; 
and so. under the charge that he had held intercourse with officers of the 
invading army, he was tried on a charge of treason, but was acquitted. 
After the close of the war he made the tour of Europe, and he did so 



32 By the will of William Hamilton, dated September 9, 1811, proved June 11, 1813, " The Woodlands" 
became the property of his nephew, James Hamilton, who was also the residuary legatee. Bequests were 
made to nieces, Margaret Hamilton, and Rebecca, wife of Francis O'Bierne. His nephew, James Hamilton, 
and friends. Doctor Thomas I'arke and William Cramond, were appointed executors. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber 5, folio 13.) 

33 " We then walked over the pleasure grounds, in front, and a little b.ack of the house. It is formed 
into walks, in every direction, with borders of flowering shrubs and trees. Between are lawns of green 
grass, frequently mowed, and at different distances numerous copse of the native trees, interspersed with 
artificial groves, which are of trees collected from all parts of the world. ... In short, he assured us, there 
was not a rare plant in F.urope, Asia, Africa, from China and the islands in the South Sea, of which he had 
any account, which he had not procured." (Rev. Manasseh Cutler, a member of Congress from Massachu- 
setts, to his daughter, Nov. 22, 1803. — Penmylvania Magazine, vol. viii., p. ioq.) 

" Last Saturday .... I visited the Woodlands, a beautiful country-seal on the Schuylkill, three miles 
from the city. It belongs to the Hamilton family. The present generation consists of two Miss Hamiltons, 
two brothers, and Mr. Lisle, a widower, with two daughters. These all live here in the suminer. At present. 



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with the advantages of an easy manner, a good taste well cultivated, 
and a thorough knowledge of society. When in England, his full-length 
portrait on a canvas, containing also that of his niece, Miss Ann Ham- 
ilton,^'* was executed by Benjamin West, and is one of the best of the 
productions of that artist." 35 " He was elected in 1797 a member of the 
American Philosophical Society. In 1805, he began to dispose of buihb 
ing lots in the northern part of his land, laying out streets called by 
the family names of Till (now Fortieth), James (now Chestnut), Andrew 
(now Walnut), Moore (now Thirty-fourth), Margaret (Thirty-sixth), 
Mary (Thirty-eighth), etc. He gave the ground on which St. Mary's 
Church was built." "'S Froni his uncle, James Hamilton, he received 
the Bush Hill estate for life, and evidently spent some of his time there.'" 



V. 

Andrew Hamilton, son of Andrew and Mary Hamilton, born January 12, 
1742/3; died November 22, 1784;"- married January 6, 1768, Abigail Franks, 
born January 6, 1744/5; died September 11, 1798;^" daughter of David Franks 
and Margaret Evans. Andrew Hamilton received from his father, by will, the 
business properties, wharves, etc., on the Delaware. He resided at the old 
home. Third and Walnut Streets, and there his widow continued to live, as 
shown by the city directories, from which it would seem probable that her death 
in Blockley Township occurred while visiting " The Woodlands," which was 
afterward the home of her children, Margaret, Mary, James and Andrew Hamil- 
ton, and Ann, the wife of James L>yle. 

The will of Andrew Hamilton of the city of Philadelphia, Gentleman, dated 



the family have not moved out. . . . We entered a handsome gate ; on each side was a porter's lodge ; 
passed over a fine gravel road between clumps of forest trees, and arrived at an elegant building. . . . We 
went in, and a lady came forward with great ease to receive us, Miss Hamilton. She is about fifty. . . . 
After the death of a married sister, she took upon herself the entire care of her nieces, who are now, I am 
told, fine girls. She is the principal directress of the Woodlands, keeps several men constantly at work, and 
is making great improvements. Her uncle, the last owner, had improved the place very much ; had been in 
Europe, and made collections of beautiful paintings, which are arranged and taken care of by this lady. 
Everything within doors is elegant. The piazza at the back looks upon the Schuylkill, which makes many 
windings, and passes at a distance ; over it is a bridge of one arch, on which there is a good deal of traveling. 
We went into the gardens, which were in fine order, and through the hot-house, which contains the greatest 
collection of plants in the United States. Wheh we had at Cambridge one flowering cereus, they had about 
the same time twenty. Last winter Miss H. supplied the sick with five or six hundred lemons from her own 
trees." (Letter of Miss Margaret G. Gary, of Chelsea, near Boston, while visiting Philadelphia, May, 
1815. See Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xv., p. 496. One of the nieces above mendoned was Ellen Lyle, who 
married Hartman Kuhn, of Philadelphia.) 

»*The daughter of Andrew Hamilton, who married James Lyle. This painting is in the possession of 
the Pennsylvania Historical Socictv. 

35" A Walk to Darby," by Townsend Ward, Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. iii., p. i6r. 

38 Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. 135. 

3' " Sunday, 12. Dined at Bush-hill with Mr. William Hamilton ; spent the evening at home writing." 
(Washington's Diary, August, 1787. — Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xi., p. 306.) 

3» " November 24,— Attended the funeral of Andrew Hamilton, whose body was taken early this morning 
from town to Bush Hill. The Rev. William White performed the ceremony." (Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer. 
1784, Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xvi., p. 169.) The bodies of members of the Hamilton family were in 
later years removed to the Hamilton vault, Christ Church ground. 

39" Died in the township of Blockley, yesterday, after a lingering indisposition, Mrs. Hamilton, relict 
of the late Andrew Hamilton, Esq., of Third 'S,\.xzq\:' —Pennsylvania Gazette, September 12, 1798. 

7 



98 THE ANCESTRY OF 

November 21, 1784, was proved January i, 1785. He devised to his wife Abi- 
gail Hamilton for life, the house and lot where he was living at the corner of 
Walnut and Third Streets, together with the twenty-foot lot to the northward of 
the same ; also all the houses, stores, wharf, and lots of ground situate on Front 
and Water Streets, in the city of Philadelphia, near the draw-bridge ; the lots 
and house on the west side of Third Street, between Chestnut and Market 
Streets. To her was also bequeathed his plate, household furniture, negroes, 
horses and carriage. 

To his son James Hamilton, one hundred guineas, he being amply provided 
for by the testator's uncle's will. To his youngest daughter Rebecca Hamilton, 
fifteen hundred pounds. The residue of the estate to his children, Margaret, 
Ann, Mary, Andrew, Franks and Rebecca. 

His wife, his good friend Edward Shippen, Esquire, and Doctor Thomas 
Parke were appointed executors. Will witnessed by William White and Chris- 
topher Harberger. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber T, folio no.) 

Children of Andrew Hamilton and Abigail Franks : 

1. Margaret Hamilton, born October 4. 1768; died January, 1828; *" unmarried. 

2. ANN HAMILTON, born December 16, 1769; died August 12, 1798; married Oc- 

tober 17, 1792, James Lyle. 

3. Mary Hamilton, born August i, 1771: died April, 1849; ^^ unmarried. 

4. James Hamilton, born July 31, 1774; died July 20, 1817; unmarried. Letters of 

administration on his estate were granted August 12, 1817, to James 
Lyle. 

5. Andrew Hamilton, born November 4, 1776: died May 16, 1825; *- married June 

II, 1817, Eliza Urquhart, daughter of Rev. D. H. Urquhart. 

Child: 
i. Mary Ann Hamilton, married Septimus Henry Palairet; issue. 



♦"The will of Margaret Hamilton of Philadelphia, dated March 31, 1827; proved January 25, 1828. 
Bequest to Margaret Thomson ; to sister Mary Hamilton ; to sister Rebecca Obeirne ; to Henry Beckett ; 
to Mary Ann Hamilton, daughter of her la'e brother Andrew Hamilton. Bequest to Eliza Lawrence, after 
death of sister Mary. Nieces Mary Beckett and Ellen Kuhn. Executors, sister Mary Hamilton, John B. 
Newman, Henry Beckett and Joseph R. Ingersoll. 

Witnessed by Benjamin Chew and S. Chew. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 9, folio 141.) 

*! The will of Mary Hamilton of Philadelphia, single woman, dated March 11, 1844, proved April 28, 
1849, mentions Hamilton Beckett, son of Henry and niece Mary Beckett ; Marianne, Lady Whichcote, 
daughter of the said Henry and Mary Beckett ; Miss Eliza Laurence, daughter of Mrs. Rebecca Redman 
and niece of Miss Mary Redman ; niece Mrs. Ellen Kuhn, and her daughter NLiry. To rector, church 
wardens and vestrymen of Christ Church, $500.00. Sundry bequests to servants. 

Henry Beckett, executor. Witnessed by Horace Binney, Horace Binney, Jr., and J. H. McManus. 

Codicil, dated August 22, 1846, mentions Hamilton Beckett ; Hamilton Kuhn, son of niece Ellen 
Kuhn; Mary Hamilton Kuhn, granddaughter of niece Ellen Kuhn; Lady Whichcote. Witnessed by 
Horace Binney and Mary Beckett. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 22, folio 182.) 

*2 The will of .•\ndrew Hamilton, of Bath, England, dated May 16, 1825, proved at London, July i, 
1825, mentions wife, Eliza iiamilton ; estate in Pennsylvania; daughter, Mary Ann Hamilton.who was underage ; 
bequest to children of Henry Allen Johnson, Esquire, of the city of Bath. Executors : wife, Henry Allen 
Johnson, Edward Goldsmid of Upper Harley street, in the city of Westminster, Esquire, and Horace 
Binney, of Philadelphia, in America, Esquire. 

Witnessed by Jos. Hume Spry, Surgeon, Bath ; Geo. Spry, Surgeon, Bath ; William Squibb, Servt. to 
A. Hamilton, Esq. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 8, folio 370.) 



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99 



6. Franks Hamilton, born May 22, 1779; died August 14, 1798; buried in the grave- 

yard of Christ Church; ■43 unmarried. 

7. Rebecca Hamilton, born November 7, 1783: died February 2, 1842; married 

November 28, 1809, Francis Lewis 0"Bierne. son of the Most Rev. 
Thomas Lewis O'Bierne, Bishop of Meath; issue. 



IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuiin. 
IL Elizabeth Kuiin, married George Calvert Morris. 
L Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




*3 " Mr. Franks Hamilton, the young gentleman whose death we announced on Wednesday, was a 
member of the volunteer Grenadiers of this city, commanded by Major Moore. Mr. Hamilton justly held the 
highest rank in the esteem of the Company, and his many amiable qualities rendered his death a distressing 
event to every individual member. A number of the members of the Company are now at Trenton, and 
with their First Lieutenant have agreed to wear mourning for one month out of respect to the memory of 
Mr. Hamilton." — The Pennsylvania Gazette, August 17, 1798. 



loo THE ANCESTRY OF 



HANKE. 

John Hanks is mentioned among the Quakers who suffered persecution in 
Derbyshire in 1685. 

Luke Hanke was a purchaser of five hundred acres of land in Pennsylvania 
from William Penn, in 1682. In right of this purchase a survey was made of a 
tract of three hundred and three acres in Upper Darby Township, Chester (now 
Delaware) County, November 8, 1682, and a patent granted therefor Eleventh 
month 17, 1684. Another survey of two hundred acres was made in Newtown 
Township Tenth month 7, 1683. 

At a Court at Chester, First month 5th, 1688 : " John Blunstone, as At- 
torney to Luke Hanke, past over a Patent by assignment dated ye 5th day of ye 
i^^ moneth 1688 vnto William Garrett and Thomas Bradshaw for a parcell of 
land near Muckaraton Creeke, viz : one hundred acres thereof to sd Thomas 
Bradshaw, ye remainder to ye sd William Garrett." It has not been discovered 
what disposition was made of the Newtown tract. 

It is probable that Luke Hanke did not come tc Pennsylvania, but there is 
evidence that some of his family came over. John Hanke was witness to the 
marriage of Josiah Hibberd and Ann Bonsall, in Darby, Ninth month 9th, 1698. 
John Hank, of the township of Darby, husbandman, by deed of July 31, 1700, 
purchased two hundred and fifty acres of land in Philadelphia County, from Wil- 
liam Southebe. 

"John Hank, now of Philadelphia in ye province of Pensilvania, son of Luke 
Hank of Sawley of Derbeshire of Great Brittaine, deceased, and Rebecca Brian, 
daughter of Thomas Brian, Late of the Township of Northampton and County 
of Burlington in the West division of New Jersey, also deceased," were married 
at Burlington Seventh month 22, 1737. The witnesses who signed as nearest 
relatives were Rebecca Briant, Elizabeth Evens, Elizabeth Evens, Jun*", and Ben- 
jamin Briant. 



Generation VII. 

Elizabeth Hanke, of Darby, was married in December, 1693, to William 
Evans (or Evens), of Evesham, New Jersey. 



VI. Jane Evans, married William Hudson. 
V. Elizaelth Hudson, married Anthony Morris. 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline 

Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



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HARTMAN. 

Generation V. 

Isaac Hartman/ of the island of Santa Cruz, West Indies, son of Isaac 
and Jemniia Hartman, born November 7, 1725; died July, 1792; married Sep- 
tember 16, 1748, Margaret Carrol Nanton, born 1728; died March 14, 1785. 

Children of Isaac Hartman and Margaret Carrol Nanton: 

1. Isaac Benjamin Nanton Hartman. born December 25. 1750: died January 5, 1753. 

2. John William Hunt Hartman, born March 21. 1752; died December 22. 1752. 

3. Isaac Hartman, born October 30,2 1753. 

4. John Hartman, born October 26, 1755; died November 25, 1756. 

5. ELIZABETH HARTMAN, born August 19. I755; died' February, 1791; mar- 

ried (i) June 15, 1769. Francis Markoe: (2) May 14. 1780. Dr. Adam 
Kuhn. 

6. William Hartman. 

7. Mary Hartman, born September 22. 1760; died May, 1764. 

8. Peter Hartman, born and died May, 1763. 

9. Mary Hartman, 2d. 

IV. Elizabeth (Hart.man) Markoe, married Adam Kuhn. 
III. Hartman Kuhn, married Ellen Lyle. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



HELLEMANS. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 

HELMAN. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 



1 Ijt. Francis H. Markoe, of New York, under date of March 30, 1904, writes : " I sent an agent to 
the West Indies about a year ago, who visited Santa Cruz, St. Eustatius, &c. ; soon after his return he died 
rather suddenly, and before seeing me, and such data as he had not committeed to paper were therefore lost. 
All that I have discovered is that the family [Hartman] were Westphalian landed gentry, some Moravians, 
some Catholics, and in the early days people of wealth and high standing in the Colonies. There were two 
or three branches of the family ; one at St. Kitts, where the name was spelled Hardtman ; one at Santa Cruz, 
where the d was omitted, and one in Granada, also spelled with the i." And again : "The evidence of the 
nativity of the Hartman family I obtained from a branch of the family now living on Nevis. Concerning 
Isaac Hartman's wife, all the evidence points towards the name having been Nanton, there being no doubt 
about the Margaret Carroll, and she was probably the daughter of the afore-mentioned Wm. Nanton 
(a member of the Council of Tortola, who went to Santa Cruz in 1737 and settled there). The Nanton 
family was a large one and principally in the island of Antigua ; John Carroll was Deputy Governor of 
Montserrat." " Isaac Hartman Sen'r who married Jemima, was probably a resident of either the present 
Tortola or Virgin Gorda (formerly called Spanishtown or Penniston.") 

2 Letters of Administration were granted at Philadelphia, May 20, 1800, to Francis Markoe, merchant 
of Philadelphia, on the estate of Isaac Hartman, deceased. A. Kuhn, of Philadelphia, physician, and John 
Caldwell, gentleman, were sureties for the sum of two thousand dollars. 



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HUDSON. 

Generation VIII. 

It appears by the records of Friends in England that William Hudson 
resided at York, and was three times married. His first wife, Mary, died Ninth 
month II, 1681, and was buried on the 13th in the Friends' burial ground there. 
He was again married, Fifth month 10, 1684, at Selby, to Susannah Morley, a 
widow, having children. She died Fifth month 14, 1700, and he was married 
a third time. Fifth month 8, 1703, to Jane Waite, who died Twelfth month 2^, 
1704/5. His children were by his first wife only. 

William Hudson was among those who suffered persecution for conscience' 
sake, for we read in Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers that " William Hudson, 
of York, was committed to York Castle by a Writ de Excommunicato capiendo 
on the 8th of the Eleventh Month, 1673, after a Prosecution in the Ecclesiastical 
Court for refusing to pay an Assessement toward the repairing of the Steeple- 
house, and was remaining Prisoner there upwards of nine Years after." He 
died at York, Second month 14, 1713. 

It is said there is considerable plate in existence in Burlington 
County, New Jersey, brought from Yorkshire, and marked with the names of 
William Hudson^ and Mary Head, whence it is supposed that his first wife was 
a Head. 



^ In "Watson's Annals of Philadelphia," vol.i., p. 3, edition of 1855, is found the following, which 
appears to have no foundation in fact : 

" In 1609, Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of The Dutch East India Company, having 
fruitlessly sought a northwest passage to India in the high northern latitudes, resolved to repair the losses of 
his ineffective labors by extending his voyage more southerly, for the purpose of tralific. In returning thence 
from the bay of Virginia, he discovered our Bay of Delaware and soon after the Hudson River. From this 
last discovery certain traders from Holland came out in 1614 under a patent from the States General and 
made their first establishment at Fort Orange (Aurania) near the present City of Albany." 

Footnote to above. " William Hudson, an English Clergyman [ ! ! ] from Barbadoes, who was a 
primitive settler at Philadelphia and who has left several descendants among us, was a near relative of 
Hudson, the discoverer, perhaps his nephew. He became a Friend and was much employed in civil offices." 

Same volume, p. 518. "The house of William Hudson was standing 50 years ago in the rear of 
C. C. Watson's house, No 92 Chestnut Street. Its front was on Third St., with a courtyard and great trees 
in it and a way out to Chestnut St., also." 

Same volume, p. 547. " Mrs. Deborah Logan told me that she was informed by one of the daughters 
of the Hudson Family of Philadelphia, which came here from Jamaica at the time of the first settlement, that 
they were the kinsfolk of the celebrated Captain Henry Hudson, the discoverer of our country. That lady 
was respectable and intelligent, and if now alive would be past one hundred years of age. Her brother, Samuel 
Hudson, was the last male of the family. The descendants by the female line are now respectable members 
of society. A table of family descent is now in possession of William Howell, a descendant. The original 
William Hudson who first came here had been an Episcopal Clergyman and became a Friend by convincement. 
While he lived he was honored with several offices. The house which he built and dwelt in in Philadelphia 
was of a very respectable and venerable appearance, having a brick portico before the door and a courtyard 
on Third St., and another as an outlet on Chestnut St., thus placing his house on the premises of Charles C. 
Watson, near the corner of Third and Chestnut Sts. He had property also on the line of Hudson's Alley, 
which gave rise to that name." 

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Children of William Hudson and Mary : 

1. WILLIAM HUDSON, born York, England, Fourth month 3, 1664; died Tenth 

month 17, 1742; married (i) Twelfth month 28, 1688, Mary Richardson; 
(2) Twelfth month, 1709/10, Hannah (C)gden) Barber. 

2. John Hudson, died York, England, 16S7. 

3. Mary Hudson, died York, England, 1674. 

4. Samuel Hudson, died York, England, 1699; unmarried. 

5. Timothy Hudson, produced a certificate from York Monthly Meeting, dated 

Eleventh month 6, 1698/9, to Philadelphia, but, after a brief sojourn, re- 
turned to his native place. 

VI. 

William Hudson, Jr.,- son of William and Mary, was born at the city of 
York, England, Fourth month 3, 1664. His coming to Pennsylvania is set 
forth in the following certificate : 

York Citty in England, &c. 

Whereas James IMarshaU of this Citty & Rachell his Wife according to their In- 
clinations for a long time are now determined through God's assistance to Transport 
themselves w*-"^ their family into y^ Province of Pensillvania in Amerrica as also Will"" Hud- 
son y® younger of y*^ said Citty of w*^^ they have aquainted many fifriends desiring also 
that if friends were under no dissatisfaction touching y*^ same they would be pleased to 
give on their behalfe as they saw meet. 

These are therefore to Certify f^riends & all God's people where this may come & 
l;^'ticularly the Churches of Christ in the afores*^ Evince that we whose names are here- 
unto subscribed do find nothing upon our spirits whereupon to obstruct their aforesaid 
Intentions of the said James & Rachell Marshall and \Vi\\^ Hudson but on the Contrary 
dre apt to believe they have bin pretty tender and simple in their Exercise touching the 
same we doe also understand their Relations are pretty well satisfied therewith. And as 
w"^ respect to Truth this we can say on their behalfe That ever since they have ^J^fessed the 
Truth they have demeaned themselves as became the same, and have bin kept in y^ unity 
& fellowship thereof: And their Conversations amongst all for any thing that ever we 
have known or heard of hath bin no otherwise then doth become y*" Truth w'^^ they have 
received & Testified unto for whose sake also we have an Exercise upon our spirits w^'^ 
desires y* the Lord may be w*"^ them w^^ Blessings and peace to his own praise who is 
\vorthy for ever. 

And further touching the aforesaid W™ Hudson he being in an unmarried State we 
know nothing but that he is clear from all t^sons w^soever in relation to marriage. And if 
it shall please God y^ he shall find Inclinations in himselfe to alter his state w^^ respect to 
marrv in America his fifather hath freelv given him up to the exercise of Truth in his own 



Deborah Logan must have been a granddaughter of William Hudson, the immigrant, who did not come liere 
from Jamaica, and there is no reason to suppose he was ever an Episcopal clergyman. His father-m-law, 
Samuel Richardson, did come from Jamaica. 

» A survey was made of two hundred acres of land in Newtown Township, Chester (now Delaware) 
County, Pennsylvania, lomo. 29, 1683, in the name of William Hudson, but whether the subject of this sketch is 
uncertain. Another William Hudson, a bricklayer, was married at Philadelphia Meeting, 6 mo. 12, 1686, to 
Ann Waves, spinster He died in 1694, leaving a son John and daughter Elizabeth. At Chester Court, 6 mo. 
27, 1689, "William Hudson acknowledged a Deed vnto Olife Roberts for a tract of land Conteinmg 300 
acres lying in Newtowne, dated y« 24'h day of y<= 6th moneth Called Aug' 1689." The deed was not recorded. 

Elizabeth Hudson, daughter of William Hudson, bricklayer, was married 12 mo 10, 1714, at Philadelphia 
Meeting, to Dennis Rochford, of that place. 

John Hudson, of Philadelphia, turner, and Abigail Skelton, of the same city, were married 3 mo. 26. 

1715, at Philadelphia Meeting. 



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spirit vv"^'' the advice & salisfacticni ui the Church of God there In relation thereunto. Your 
Brethren & sisters in y'= Trulli oi tlu- inicular Monthly Meeting in York. 

William Ilud.son, Jn" .Bla>kling, Jn" Taylor, Jn" Todd, Tho: Waite, Walter Merry, 
Kich : Harrison, Geo; Thompson, Tho: Waller, Jn° Taylor, Stee : Thomson, Tho: Ham- 
mond, Edward Geere, Eliz: Hammond, ffran Taylor, Eliz: Slack, Mary Wilkinson, Eliz: 
Whittle, Sarah Langstaffe, Eliz: Middleton, Eliz. Horslay. 

The above certilicate is without date, but the omission is suppHed by the 
niinutcs of York Montlily iVIeeting, under date ot Second month 2, 1686, as 
follows: "This day Isaac Decow & his Brother Jacob Decovv, as also James 
Marshall William Hudson Junr & John Taylor Junr of Grimston had Certificates 
granted them from friends of this meeting In relation to their voyage Into Pen- 
silvania in .Vmerica." 

From the records of the same meeting it appears that Jacob Decow and 
Hannah Marshall declared intentions of marriage First month 7, 1677, and 
James Marshall and Rachel Garthwaite on Second month 4, 1678; at which 
time James was directed to produce a certificate from Scarborough Meeting 
and also of his clearness from John Green's daughter. It has been stated that 
James Marshall's wife was a sister to William Hudson, but this would seem to 
be an error. 

By deed of April 2, 1686, William Cornthwaite, of the parish of Warton, 
in the County of Lancaster, conveyed to John Cornwell, of Gowle, in the County 
of Yorke, yeoman, and William Htidson, Junior, of the City of Yorke, tanner, 
five hundred acres of land in Pennsylvania, for £20. He had ptirchased the same 
land from William Penn by lease and release, May 24 and 25, 1683. 

Edward Atkinson, of Side, in the County of York, yeoman, was also a pur- 
chaser of five hundred acres from Penn, May 24 and 25, 1683, which he conveyed 
to John Cornwell and William Hudson. The two parcels of land were laid out 
by warrant dated Sixth month 11, 1686, in what was for many years the southern 
end of East Bradford Township, Chester County, but now the northern end 
of Birmingham Township. By resurvey, April 18, 1701, there proved to be 
one thousand one hundred and thirty-two acres in the whole. The southern 
half was patented to William Hudson August i, 1701 ; and, by deed of December 
30, 1709, William Hudson, of Philadelphia, tanner, conveyed the said five hun- 
dred and sixty-six acres to John Davies, of Thornbtiry Township, for £134. For 
some reason the title was incomplete, and by deeds of lease and release, 
June 16 and 17, 1712, John Davies reconveyed the land to William Hud- 
son for five shillings ; and John Cornwell, then of Philadelphia, and Wil- 
liam Hudson, June 18 and 19, 1712, conveyed the eastern half to John 
Davies, it being divided in a different manner from the former. There is evi- 
dence that John Cornwell, a relative of William Hudson, arrived in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1712. By deeds of 7th and 8th of June, 1716. he conveyed his half of 
the above land to William Hudson, and the latter, with Hannah his wife, con- 
veyed two hundred and fifty-four acres of the upper part to John Collier, Novem- 
ber t6, 1722, and the remaining three hundred and twelve acres to Samuel 
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William Hudson also purchased from his father-in-law a tract of one thou- 
sand one hundred and sixty acres in Willistown Township, Chester Counly, by 
deed of February 3, 1709, and sold this in smaller tracts to settlers. 

At a monthly meeting held 25th of Eleventh month, 1688, at the meeting- 
house on the front of Delaware, " Sarah Welch & Ellin Richardson presents 
William Hudson & Mary Kichardson who declared their intentions of marriasic 
it being the first time. Friends desire Samuel Carpenter and Thomas Hootton 
to make Enquir}- into the young mans clearness, and give account thereof to the 
next monthly meeting." 

22d of I2th month, 1688: "William Hudson & Mary Richardson ap- 
peared before this meeting, who published their intentions of marriage it being 
the second time, The friends appointed to Enquire concerning them satisfy 
the meeting that they hear nothing to obstruct the same and friends leave them 
to their liberty to Consummate their said intentions in the good order of Truth." 

William Hudson, of Philadelphia, tanner, and Alary Richardson, of the 
same place, married 12th month 28, 1688, at Philadelphia Meeting House. Wit- 
nesses Samuel Richardson, Joseph Richardson, John Simcock, George Flutch- 
eson, James Marshall, John Southworth, and forty-seven others. 

(Philadelphia Meeting Record). 

Mary, the first wife of William Hudson, was born in the city of London, 
Fourth month 19, 1673, and died Twelfth month 16, 1708.'' He married, sec- 
ondly, Hannah, widow of Robert Barber, of Chester, and sister of David Ogden, 
deceased, of Middletown. They declared their intentions of marriage, the sec- 
ond time, at Chester Monthly Meeting, Twelfth month 27, 1709, and were 
doubtless married a few days later. Hannah received a certificate from Ches- 
ter to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, dated Second month 29, 1710. She died 
Ninth month 16, 1759, aged ninety-nine years.'* 

William Hudson became a member of the Common Council, and is men- 
tioned as such in the charter of J701. In 1706 he was elected a member of the 
Provincial Assembly, and on October 4, 171 5, he became an alderman and as- 



s " William Hudson, my father, was born at y" City of York, in England, y^ 3 day 4 m., 1664. Mary 
Hudson, my mother, was born in y^ City of London y" year 1673, y« 4 m" 19 day. . . . Mary Hudson departed 
this life this 16 d^ 12"', 1708'*, in the 37 year of her age, being 36 years, 4m. 19 days old, who dyed of her 14"' 
child. William Hudson departed this life y^ i6"> day of 10 mo., 1742, being 78 years & 6 mo. 13 days old." 
(Bible of William Hudson, Jr. See Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xvi., pp. 109, no.) 

■• The will of Hannah Hudson, widow, " aged and weak in body," dated June4, 1743, proved September 
12, 1759, bequeathed : to her kinswoman, Lydia, wife of Thomas Vernon, a feather bed, her wearing apparel, 
and the money from the sale of her negro named Daphne ; to her cousin Lydia, daughter of Isaac Vernon, a 
feather bed ; to David, son of Samuel Ogden, five pounds ; to sister-in-law Martha Thomas, five pounds ; to 
the women's meeting of Friends in Philadelphia, three pounds ; to her nurse Mary Williams, forty shillings ; 
Sarah Densey and Jane Hatfield each forty shillings ; WilHam Moode, of Philadelphia, cordwainer, five pounds. 
The residue of estate to her nephew, Isaac Williams, of Philadelphia, shop-keeper, who with William Moode 
was made e.xecutor. Witnessed by Matthew Medcalf, George Clare and Joseph Marriate. 

By a codicil dated June 18, 1743, she directed that her nephew, Isaac Williams, .should have but one- 
half of the residuary estate, and gives to Lydia, the wife of Thomas Vernon, the other half; bequeaths to 
Nehemiah Vernon five pounds and to the said Isaac Wilhams and Lydia, wife of Thomas Vernon, the monies 
from sale of the negro Daphne. Letters testamentary were granted unto Isaac Williams, William Moode 
being deceased. 



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sociate justice of the City Court. He was chosen mayor of Philadelphia in 1725 
for one year, and subsequently became a justice of the Orphans' Court. (Penn- 
sylvania iVrcliives, 2d series, vol. ix., pp. 729, 730, 738.) 

His house was at the southeast corner of Third and Chestnut Streets. 

Nathan Kite, in " Biographical Sketches of Ministers and Elders " (The 
Friend, volume xxx., page 181), says of William Hudson: " He was approved as 
an elder about the year 1727, and held many other appointments in his monthly 
meeting and other meetings for discipline. He was much employed in the Yearly 
Meeting, and was frequently on the committees to prepare epistles. His Monthly 
Meeting says he ' was an elder in good repute, and a serviceable member of our 
religious Society, being concerned for the support of our discipline, and in life 
and conversation steady and exemplary.' Feeling the infirmities of age coming 
upon him, he, in 1738, began to withdraw from some of the burdens laid upon 
him by his friends, feeling inadequately properly to bear them. His action 
herein was judicious, and as his friends felt it to be so, he was released from most 
of his appointments before his death. He appears to have been much confined 
to his own house for the two or three years previous to his decease, which took 
place on the 17th [i6th] of the Tenth month, 1742, he being in the 78th year 
of his age." 

The Pcnnsyk'ania Jourtial and Weekly Advertiser of January 11, 1742, con- 
tains the following obituary notice : 

On the i6th of December last, departed this Life William Hudson, who was an 
early Settler in this Province (viz., about the year 1684), and In the 8oth year of his Age, 
after a tedious Indisposition and weakness of Body, which he past with a humble Resigna- 
tion, and patiently waiting the Pleasure of his Creator; and hath left behind him that 
desirable epithet A good Name. He was intrusted with a Commission of the Peace for 
the Space of near forty Years, the Administration whereof he acquitted himself as one 
worthy of so honourable a Post. He was charitable to the Poor, and contributed largely 
to the Relief of the Indigent and Needy, and espoused the cause of the oppressed Widow 
and the Fatherless, Sympathizing with the Afflicted, not forgetting those that were con- 
fined in Prison. He was a Tender Husband, a kind Father, a good Neighbour, and a 
Sincere Friend; and hath no doubt chang'd this transitory Life for a blessed Immortality, 
and translated into the Kingdom of Peace and Blessedness. 

The will of William Hudson, of Philadelphia, tanner, he " being aged and 
infirm of body," was dated October 30, 1738, proved December 23, 1742. He de- 
vised to his wife Hannah the hotises and lots on the north side of Chestnut 
Street, formerly part of the estate of John Cheatham, deceased, in the occu- 
pation of George Scott, Thomas Ashburnham and Anne Robinson ; also the 
house and lot on north side of Chestnut Street, in the occupation of his son 
William ; also house and lot on north side of High Street, in the occupation of 
Rebecca Richardson and Thomas Gardner ; a lot on north side of High Street 
and on Fifth .Street; a piece of groiuul, connnonly called the pasture, fronting 
east on Fifth, north on Mulberry and west on Sixth Street. Also the half part of 
his messuages with the appurtenances, " situate at Reedness and Foggerbury, 
in the County of York, in that part of Great I'ritain called England." Also, for 



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life, ground rents payable on the lot on north side of High Street, conveyed to 
Abraham Kintzing ; lot on west side of Fifth Street, conveyed to Evan Davis ; 
lot on north side of High Street, conveyed to Gustavus Hesselius ; also the 
negro woman named Daphne, two feather beds and furniture thereof, one hun- 
dred pounds in money and the rent and hire of his negro man, amounting to ten 
pounds yearly, payable by John Langdale. 

To his wife was left forty pounds, twenty pounds thereof to be by her dis- 
tributed amongst the poor of the people called Quakers in Philadelphia ; the 
twenty pounds residue to be by her distributed amongst the poor of other relig- 
ious societies in Philadelphia at her discretion. 

After his wife's death, his whole square, " hereafter to be called and honored 
by the name of Hudson's Square," being three hundred and ninety-six feet in 
breadth and six hundred and sixty feet in length, and bounded by Mulberry, 
Fifth, High and Sixth Streets, should be divided by his executors into three 
equal parts by two streets of thirty feet width each, to extend east and west 
parallel to High and Mulberry Streets, at two hundred feet distance from each 
of the said streets, and two hundred feet from each other, the more northerly of 
the two streets to be called North and the other South Street, and to remain 
always open to be used as public streets forever. 

To son William after his mother's death, a portion of the above square and 
the house and lot where the said son was dwelling, also the house and lot of land 
where the testator was living on the east side of Third Street and south side of 
Chestnut Street, with the houses and other buildings thereon, the tan-yard, tan- 
pits, etc. Also, a lot on the south end of the messuage and lot " wherein An- 
drew Hamilton now dwells," which was purchased of Honour Bedwell, together 
with the skin-house ; also a lot on north side of Walnut Street purchased of John 
Martin's executors ; a small piece of swamp between the two lots last mentioned, 
which he lately purchased of the proprietors. Also, a pasture lot of about nine 
acres, in the township of Wiccaco, near the city, purchased of Martha Cox ; a 
lot on High Street and on west side of Fifth ; and one hundred pounds in money. 

To grandson William Medcalf, a part of the square, or, if he died without 
issue, to two granddaughters, Mary Burr and Hannah Owen. To granddaugh- 
ters Rachel and Susanna Medcalf, a lot on High and east side of Fifth Streets, 
and houses and lots purchased of John Cheatham's children. To said Susanna 
a part of the square. To grandson Matthew Medcalf, a part of the square. To 
grandson William Medcalf, a ground rent payable by Gustavus Hesselius; if 
William died without issue, then to granddaughters Mary Burr and Hannah 
Owen. To granddaughter Rachel Medcalf, a lot on North Street. To grand- 
daughters, Rachel and Susanna Medcalf one hundred pounds between them, 
when twenty-one years of age. To granddaughter Hannah Moode, part of the 
square and a lot on High Street. To William Moode, husband of the said Han- 
nah, one hundred pounds. To granddaughter Mary Burr a part of the square. 
To granddaughter Elizabeth Hudson, part of the square. To daughter Rachel, 
wife of Samuel Emlen, " during my wife's life one moiety of my messuages, . . . 
and tenements . . . situate at Reedness and Foggerbury, in the County of York 



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aforesaid, and after the decease of my said wife I give to her my said daughter 
Rachel the remainder of my estate in the whole of the said messuages." Also, 
to daughter Rachel a part of the square, a ground rent out of the two houses in 
Philadelphia, in tenure of William Tidmarsh and Joseph Rakestraw, and two 
hundred pounds. 

To grandson Hudson Emlen a part of the square. To granddaughter Sarah 
Emlen a part of same. To daughter Susanna, wife of John Burr, the house, 
lot and wharf on east side of Water Street, purchased of Richard Rees, in 
occupation of Richard Holmes, and after her death to her children, Mary, 
Hannah, Rachel and Susanna. To said John Burr, one hundred pounds. To 
granddaughter Sarah, wife of John Langdale, a lot on east side of Fifth Street. 
To granddaughter Mary Howell, wife of Jacob Howell, Junior, part of the 
square ; two hundred pounds and interest due by mortgage from Thomas Green, 
and messuage and eight acres situate near Concord Meeting House in Chester 
County. 

To granddaughter Rachel Owen, part of the square, and the westernmost 
part of the house and lot on north side of High Street, in which John Jones 
lately dwelt, in the occupation of Rebecca Richardson. To granddaughter 
Hannah Owen the easternmost part of the house and lot last mentioned, and a 
lot on east side of Fifth Street, bounded northward by the Church of England 
burying ground. 

To Rebecca and Deborah Hudson, daughters of son John Hudson, de- 
ceased, the two northernmost messuages on west side of Front Street, in occu- 
pation of John Harcomb and George Parker, with a piece of ground " now 
used by John Richardson," at the north end of the alley leading from High 
Street beyond the tenement in which the said George Parker and John Harcomb 
dwell. Also a lot on Fifth Street ; a ground rent payable out of messuages on 
the bank of Delaware, in occupation of John Brown, of Gloucester, Richard 
Taylor and Ezekiel Siddal, and a ground rent payable by Mary Appleton and 
Thomas Chase. 

To grandson Samuel Hudson, son of William, a ground rent payable by 
Thomas Tresse until the year 1751, for a messuage on west side of Front Street, 
in occupation of said Tresse ; also the residue and interest in said messuage 
after the expiration of said term. To grandsons Samuel Hudson and Hudson 
Emlen, a ground rent payable by Abraham Kintzing, but if either grandson 
die unded age the survivor to have rent. 

To Elizabeth Hudson, daughter of son Samuel, deceased, messuage on 
west side of Front Street and the pieces of ground within the store house and 
privileges of the alley, well and pump. To Hannah Hudson, daughter of said 
son Samuel, messuage adjoining above-mentioned, in occupation of Thomas 
Rogers. To Mary Hudson, daughter of said Samuel, lot purchased of Rowland 
Ellis, being part of the square. 

To Rachel Hudson, Jane Hudson, Susanna and Mary Hudson, daughters of 
son Williain, each part of the square. To granddaughter Sarah, wife of John 
Langdale, lot on east side of Fifth Street. To granddaughter Mary Howell, 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 109 



fifty pounds. To Isaac Williams, of Philadelphia, a lot in Chester purchased 
of Richard Barker, and fifty pounds, in recompense for any trouble as executor. 
To Lydia, wife of Thomas Vernon, and Rebecca, daughter of Isaac Vernon, 
each five pounds. 

Children and grandchildren released from all sums of money due the testa- 
tor. Executors to sell lands in the County of Chester. Remainder of estate to 
be divided between son William, daughter Rachel Emlen, the children of daugh- 
ll ter Hannah Medcalf, daughter Susanna Burr, granddaughter Mary Howell, 
granddaughter Hannah Moode, granddaughters Rebecca and Deborah Hudson 
(daughters of son John Hudson, deceased), and granddaughters Hannah, Eliza- 
beth and Mary Hudson, daughters of son Samuel, deceased. 

His son William, son-in-law John Burr, Samuel Emlen and friend Isaac 
Williams appointed executors. Witnessed by William Clare, John Ogden and 
I John Kinsey. 

' A codicil, dated April 17, 1739, named William Moode as an additional 

executor and bequeathed to him fifty pounds. Witnessed by John Ogden, Wil- 
liam Clare, Junior, and John Kinsey. 

A second codicil, dated April 29, 1740, in Avhich he terms himself " William 
Hudson the Elder," revoked the hire of negro man, given to his wife ; also re- 
voked bequest of forty pounds made to wife for distribution and directs his 
executors to pay fifty pounds to such person or persons as the monthly meeting 
of Friends called Quakers, at Philadelphia, should direct, for making an addition 
to the almshouse belonging to the Friends there, when such addition should be 
thought needful. He revoked his bequest of the property at Concord made to 
Alary Howell, having since disposed of the same. Revoked bequest of a lot in 
Philadelphia, made to Rebecca and Deborah Hudson, and devised the same to 
his granddaughters Mary Burr and Rachel Owen. To Mary Williams, the nurse 
then attending him, he gave twelve pounds. Witnessed by William and John 
Clare and C. Brockden. 

A third codicil, dated August 12, 1742, bequeathed to his nurse Mary Wil- 
liams, widow, the use of a small apartment in the possession of William Tallet, 
in a tenement on the north side of Chestnut Street, formerly part of the estate of 
John Cheatham, which, being among his bequests to his wife, is to return to her, 
if living, upon the death or marriage of said Mary Williams. Witnessed by 
Andrew (X) Loller, William Moode and Joseph Brientnall. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber G, folio 9.) 

Children of William Hudson and Mary Richardson : 

I. Samuel Hudson, born Seventh month 27, 1690, at his grandfather Samuel Rich- 
ardson's plantation near Germantown; died Philadelphia, 1725: married 
1715/16, Mary Holton. daughter of Arthur Holton and Elizabeth Guest, 
of Philadelphia. Samuel Hudson visited York. England, in 1712, and 
appears to have spent most of the year there. Like his father, he was 
by occupation a tanner. In 1724 he was elected to the Provincial As- 
sembly, but failing health caused him to decide on an ocean voyage a 
few months later. His widow was married toward the close of the year 
1726 to Joshua Emlen, son of George and Hannah (Garrett) Emlen. 



I 



no THE ANCESTRY OF 

w— ■ — 

Children: 

i. Elizabeth Hudson, born Sixth month 24, 1721 ; married Third 

month 8th, 1740, John Jones, tanner, of Germantown. 
ii. William Hudson, born Seventh month 6, 1722; died Eighth 

month 26, 1722. 
iii. Hannah Hudson, born Eighth month 28, 1723; married Third 

month 19, 1741, Joseph Howell, 
iv. Mary Hudson, born Ninth month 16, 1724; married Second 

month 15, 1746, John Head. 

2. Mary Hudson, born Twelfth month 3, 1691/2; died 1728; married 1713, Joseph 

Cooper, born 1691/2; died Eighth month i, 1749; son of Joseph and 
Lydia Cooper, of Pine Point, New Jersey. The father was owner of 
over four thousand acres of land in Newton Township, Gloucester 
County. The son married again. Third month i, 1735, in Philadelphia, 
Hannah Dent, a minister, daughter of Robert Dent, of Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, and a woman of much ability. Joseph Cooper was for many years 
a Member of Assembly and a firm opponent to the arbitrary measures 
of Governor Morris, who one day said to him, " Cooper, I wish you 
would go home and send your wife here." The reply was, " I will if the 
Governor will do the same by his." {The Friend, vol. xxxi., page 181.) 

3. Elizabeth Hudson, born Fourth month 19, 1693, at her grandfather's plantation: 

married (i) Joshua Cockfield. of Philadelphia, who died Fourth month 
26, 1717; married (2) in 1722. Thomas Coebourn, of Chester, who died 
1725. By her first marriage she had Hannah Cockfield, born December 
14, 1716: married Second month 11. 1734. William Moode, of Philadel- 
phia, son of Alexander Moode, deceased. 

4. Sarah Hudson, born Philadelphia, Tenth month 28, 1694; died First month i, 

1714; unmarried. 

5. WILLIAM HUDSON, born First month 31, 1696: died Seventh month 22, 1762; 

married Eighth month 29, 1717, Jane Evans. 

6. John Hudson, born Tenth month 10, 1697; died Third month 7. 1698. 

7. Susannah Hudson, born Twelfth month 17, 1698/9; married (i) Eleventh month 

10, 1716/17, Robert Owen, born Seventh month 27, 1695; son of Robert 
and Rebecca Owen, deceased, of Merion; married (2) Third month 2, 
1734, John Burr, of Northampton Township, Burlington County, New 
Jersey. 

Children of Robert Owen and Susannah Hudson: 

i. Mary Owen, born Third month 3, 1719; married 1736, Henry 

Burr, 
ii. Hannah Owen, born First month 16, 1720/1; died First month 

1791; married (i) John Ogden; (2) Joseph Wharton, 
iii. Rachel Owen, born Sixth month 18, 1724. 

Child of John Burr and Susannah (Hudson) Owen: 
iv. Susannah Burr. 

8. Eleanor Hudson, born Sixth month 8, 1700; died Sixth month 27, 1700. 

9. John Hudson, born Twelfth month 25, 1701/2; (died before 1731 ?); married (i) 

Hannah (who married (2) 1731, Abel Preston?). 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON in 

Children: 

i. Samuel Hudson, died Sixth month 12, 1728. 
ii. Rebecca Hudson, born Sixth month 27, 1726; married October 

18, 1744, Alexander Crookshanks. 
iii. r William Hudson, born Fifth month 26,, 1728; died Elevenfh 

month 14, 1728. 
iv. I John Hudson, born Fifth month 26, 1728; died Sixth month 

^ 5, 1728. 
V. Deborah Hudson, born at Joseph Cooper's, in New Jersey, 
First month 5, 1729/30. 

10. Hannah Hudson, born First month 28, 1704; married Jacob Medcalf, of Phila- 

delphia, and Gloucester, New Jersey. 

Children of Jacob Medcalf and Hannah Hudson: 

i. Matthew Medcalf, born Second month 12, 1724. 
ii. Hannah Medcalf, born Filth month 12, 1726; died young, 
iii. Mary Medcalf, born Twelfth month 21, 1727/8. 
iv. Rachel Medcalf, born Ninth m.onth 2"], 1729; married Eleventh 

month 16, 1752, Thomas Wharton. 
V. Sarah Medcalf. born Second month z'j, 1731. 
vi. f William Medcalf, born Sixth month T2, 1732. 
vii. 1 Jacob Medcalf, born Sixth month 12, 1732. 
viii. Susanna Medcalf, born Sixth month 4. 1734: married Tenth 

month 15, 1767; William Wharton. 
ix. Hannah Medcalf, born Ninth month 4. 1735. 

11. Rebecca Hudson, born Third month 30, 1705; died Seventh month 10. 1705. 

12. Timothy Hudson, born Fifth month 8, 1706; died Second month 11, 1708. 

13. Rachel Hudson, born Nmth month 11, 1707: died Ninth month 12. 1771: mar- 

ried Tenth month 2, 1731, Samuel Emlen, born Second month 15, 1697; 
died 1783; son of George Emlen and Hannah Garrett. They had at least 
two children, Hudson Emlen and Sarah Emlen. 

14. Timothy Hudson, born Twelfth month 13, 1708; died First month, 1709. 



VI. 

William Hudson, son of William and Mary, was born in Philadelphia First 
month 31, 1696, and died there Seventh month 22, 1762. He was married 
Eighth month 29, 1717, at Evesham Meeting, New Jersey, to Jane Evans, daugh- 
ter of William and Elizabeth Evans, of that place. She was born Eighth month 
21, 1699, and died Fifth month 15, 1759. A copy of their marriage certificate, 
from the records of Evesham Meeting, is here given. 

Whereas William Hudson, the son of William Hudson of Philadelphia, in the pro- 
vince of Pennsylvania, yeoman, and Jane Evans, the daughter of William Evans of 
Evesham in the County of Burlington and Province of New Jersey, single woman, having 
declared their intention of marriage with [each] other before several Monthly Meetings 
of the People called Quakers at Newton and Waterford in the County of Gloucester and 
Province of New Jersey, aforesaid, according to the good order used among them, whose 
proceedings therein after deliberate consideration thereof, and having consent of Parents 
and Relations concerned, nothing appearing to obstruct, were approved of by the said 



112 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Meetings. Now these are to certifie all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplish- 
ing the said intentions this nine and twentieth day of the eighth month in the year of our 
Lord 1717, that the said William Hudson and Jane Evans appeared in a public Meeting 
of the said People and others in the Meeting House in Evesham in said County of Bur- 
lington, and the said William Hudson taking the said Jane Evans by the hand did in 
solemn manner openly declare that he took her to be his wife, promising to be unto her 
a faithful and loving husband until the Lord should by death separate them, and then and 
there in the said assembly the said Jane Evans did in like manner declare that she took the 
said William Hudson to be her husband, promising to be to him a faithful and loving 
wife till it should please the Lord by death to separate them, and moreover the said Wil- 
liam Hudson & Jane Evans (she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name 
of her husband) as a further confirmation thereof did then and there to these presents 
set their hands; and we whose names are hereunder subscribed, being among others pres- 
ent at the solemnization of the said marriage and subscription in manner aforesaid as wit- 
nesses thereunto have also to these presents set our hands the day and year above written. 

William Hudson 
Jane Hudson 

Signed by Thomas Chalkley, Thomas Wilkins, Sarah Core, Jn'^ Estaugh, Timothy 
Matlack, Hana Heritage, Thomas Shakle, Isaac Horner, Susanna Willing, W™ Hudson, 
John Kay, John Wood, Ann Bourton, William Evans, John Wills, William Matlack, Abi- 
gail Raper, Hannah Hudson, Joshua Humphries, Samuel Lippincott, Elizabeth Grubb, 
Elizabeth Evans, John Eves, Thomas Addams, Jos. Cooper, Tho^ Stoubson, Jerdan Wil- 
liams, Mary Cooper, Samuel Hudson, Tho*^ Hutton. Jacob Hewlings, Susanna Owen, Mary 
Hudson, Timothy Hancock, Thomas Stowe, Richard Peell, Tho^ Evans, John Harvey, 
Benj. Cooper, Mary Marriool, Ester Evans, Joseph Erench, Isaac Pearson, Joseph Mat- 
lack, Joseph Heritage. 

Like his father, William Htidson, 3d, was a tanner, bttt he does not appear 
to have been so active in public or chtirch affairs. He inherited considerable 
property, to which he made additions. The following is an abstract of his will : 

The will of William Hudson of Philadelphia, tanner, dated April 27, 1762; 
proved August 10, 1762; "being in good bodily health." devised to his son 
Samuel the house and land where he, the testator, was then dwelling, on the 
south side of Chestnut Street, twenty-five feet in breadth, thirty-six feet ten 
inches in depth, bounded north by Chestnut Street, east by Hannah Wharton's 
alley, south by lot next described, west by lot hereafter given to his daughter 
Rachel Jory; also a lot on east side of Third Street, with the buildings; land in 
the township of Wiccaco ; lot on north side of Walnut Street, bounded west, 
partly by James Hamilton's ground, together with the mill house, loft, shed, 
and one-half of the currier shop thereon, and liberty of passage out of Third 
Street to the tan yard. 

Executors to place one hundred pounds at interest, to be paid to his daugh- 
ter Sarah Langdale, and after her death the principal to her children. To 
daughter Elizabeth Morris, a lot on north side of Walnut Street, bounded east 
partly by Andrew Hamilton's lot : also a lot on west side of Third Street, 
bounded south by lot of the said Andrew Hamilton, deceased, and east by Third 
Street, with free use of the mill house, loft, shed, etc., as long as the property 
should be used as a tan yard, when same should cease to be so used, the lots to 



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be divided between Samuel and Elizabeth. To daughter Elizabeth Morris a lot 
on east side of Third Street. 

To daughter Mary Hudson a house and lot on east side of Third Street 
in tenure of William Sturgeon ; also a lot on north side of High Street. To 
daughter Rachel Jory a house and lot in tenure of Jane Grant on Chestnut 
Street bounded west by Third Street. To daughter Jane Hudson a house and 
lot on north side of High bounded east by Fifth Street. To daughter Susanna 
Hudson a house and lot on north side of Chestnut Street, in tenure of Samuel 
Bettle, also a ground rent on a lot in tenure of George Waistcoat, and a lot on 
north side of High Street. 

To daughter Mary Hudson a lot on west side of Fifth Street. To daughter 
Hannah, ground rents on lots on west side of Fifth Street, in tenure of the fol- 
lowing persons : Michael Nane, Isaac Shoemaker, Henry Wheafling and An- 
thony Woodcock. Also lots in tenure of Joseph Carmatt, Evan Davis and Adam 
Weisbert. To daughter Mary, negroes Nancy, Violet, Edy, Cato, Archer and 
Ishmael. 

To son Samuel, negroes Tony and Abel. To daughter Susanna a negro 
boy Andrew, son of Nancy. To daughter Jane a negro girl Nelly and boy 
Peter. To daughter Rachel a negro girl Amy and boy Richey. To daughter 
Hannah, a negro girl Mercy and boy Andrew, the son of Edy. 

To son Samuel the small silver tankard. To daughter Mary Hudson " all 
that plate which was formerly Abraham Buckley's, in lieu of the sum of ten 
pounds which I have received and which was left her by her grand-father 
Evans." To daughter Jane, " my large tankard, in lieu of the sum of ten 
pounds . . . left by her grand-father the said Evans." To daughter Rachel 
Jory all the household furniture and plate which was formerly in her possession 
in the lifetime of her late husband, " which furniture and plate is now in my 
dwelling house." To daughter Susanna, two silver porringers. To daughter 
Hannah two silver salt cellars and six silver tablespoons. 

His negro man was given his freedom under certain provisions. Residue 
of his estate to his son Samuel and daughters Elizabeth, Mary, Rachel, Jane, 
Susanna and Hannah. Son Samuel and daughters Mary and Susanna executors. 
Witnessed by William Pyewell, Samuel Bettles. Jr., and Peter Miller. (Phila- 
delphia Wills. Liber M, folio 333.) 

Children of William Hudson and Jane Evans : ^ 

I. Sarah Hudson, born Fifth month 30. 1718; died Eighth month 5. 1780; married 
by New Jersey license dated December 30, 1737. Jolm Langdale. born 
about 1715; died Ninth month 18, 1769. 

Children: 
i. Rachel Langdale. born Third month 7, 17.37: died Eleventh 

month, T773. 
ii. Josiah Langdale, born Tenth month 18, 1739- 



* Hudson Bible Records. Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xvi., p. io8, 
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114 THE ANCESTRY OF 



iii. William Langdale, born Fifth month 22, 1741: died Sixth 
month (?) 19, 1741- 

iv. John Langdale, born Seventh month 22, 1742; died Twelfth 
month 23, 1765; married October 26, 1765, Alice Coates. 

V. Margaret Langdale. born Seventh month 9, 1744; died young. 

vi. William HLid?on Langdale, born Ninth month 22, 1747; died 
Twelfth month, 1772. 

vii. Elizabeth Langdale. born Eleventh month 13, 1749/50; mar- 
ried Second month 9. 1797, John Balderston, of Solebury. 
viii. Margaret Langdale, born Third month. 1752. 

ix. Jane Langdale, born First month 3, 1755; married August 15, 

1777, Dr. Thomas Parke. 
X. Samuel Langdale, born Tenth month 16, 1759. 

2. Mary Hudson, born Twelfth month 22, 1719/20; died Seventh month i, 1795; ^ un- 

married. 

3. ELIZABETH HUDSON, born Twelfth month 20, 1721/2; died Fifth month 22, 

1783; married April 30. 1752, Anthony Morris. 

4. Rachel Hudson, born Eleventh month 6. 1723; married (i) at Christ Church, 

October 2, 1741, John Jory; (2) Eleventh month 28, 1769, at Philadel- 
phia Meeting, John Hunt, of Philadelphia, merchant. 

5. Jane Hudson, born First month 4. 1725/6; died Sixth month 22, 1768; "^ unmarried. 

6. William Hudson, born Eighth month 29, 1728; died First month i. 1731, of 

smallpox. 

7. Susannah Hudson, born Eighth month 30. 1729; died Twelfth month 25. 1731, of 

smallpox. 

8. Susannah Hudson, born Fourth month 10. 1733; died Seventh month 20, 1817; ^ 

unmarried. 

9. Margaret Hudson, born Second month 16, I7,H; tlied Fifth month 7. 1734. 

10. Margaret Hudson, born Fifth month 17, 1735; died Sixth month 3, 1735. 

11. Samuel Hudson, born Eighth month 6. 1736; died Eleventh month 2, 1793; mar- 

ried Third month 5, 1761. at Philadelphia Meeting. Martha Lloyd, who 
died Tenth month 3, 1780. aged 39 years; daughter of Rees Lloyd, de- 
ceased, of Philadelphia. 



^Thewill of Mary Hudson, "of the city of Philada., single woman," dated 3d of July, 1792, proved 
August 22, 1795, mentions nieces, Elizabeth and Margaret Langdale, Mary Hudson, Jane Parke and 
Rebecca Rawle ; nephew Samuel Langdale.; sister Susanna Hudson, who is bequeathed all "plate and 
wearing apparel," and half of real estate; and sister Rachel Hunt who received half of real estate. Real 
estate chargeable with an annuity of ^6 devised to " my negro woman Edy during the term of her natural 
life." Executors, the two sisters above named. Witnessed by Richard Mason, James Craig and R. White- 
head. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber X., folio 316.) 

''The will of Jane Hudson, " of the city of Philadelphia, being weak in body," dated March 25, 1765, 
proved November 28, 1768, bequeathed a lot devised to her by her grandfather, William Hudson, on the east side 
of Sixth Street to sisters, Rachel fory, Mary Hudson, Hannah Hudson and Susannah Hudson; to her niece, 
Jane Langdale, /'50, when eighteen years of age. Negro boy Peter to be apprenticed at fourteen and when 
twenty-one years of age to be set free, and to him _^5o ; to sister Susannah a silver tankard ; to sister Hannah 
a silver bowl; residue of personal estate to sisters, Mary, Rachel, Susannah and Hannah. Sister Mary 
Hudson executor. Witnessed by Elizabeth Morris, Junior, and John Langdale, Junior. (Philadelphia 
Wills, Liber O, folio 301.) 

f'The will of Susannah Hudson, dated }une 12, 1814, proved July 29, 1817, devised to Jacob Ridgway 
the bond and mortgage of William and Sarah Morris for /^8oo. To niece, Rebecca Ridgway, seven 
shares in Bank of Pennsylvania. Made bequests to Robert L. Rawle and James Carman ; nieces, 
Susan and Ann Parke; Samuel Carman, his sister Rachel, and their mother, Sarah Carman; to Susan 
Morris, daughter of Luke Morris. To niece Susan Ridgway and her sister Ann Ridgway ; Elizabeth 
Balderston; Sally Carman, her son William, and her daughter Sally Carman; to children of nephew 
Luke Morris ; to Mary Fisher ; Margaret Fisher and her sister Mary ; to Martha Fisher ; to niece Jane Parke ; 



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Children : 

i. William Hudson, died Seventh month 13, 1763, under one year 

of age. 
ii. Jane Hudson, died Fourth month 20, 1770, aged eight years, 
iii. Sarah Hudson, married March 22, 1784, Richard Carman, 
iv. Robert Hudson, died Fourth month 6, 1792, aged twenty-six 

years. 
V. William Hudson, died Seventh month 21, 1828, aged fifty-eight 

years. 

(There may have been other children.) 
12. Hannah Hudson, born Ninth month 14, 1739; married Benjamin Ravvle. 

Children: 
i. Rebekah Rawle, born February, 1773; married Jacob Ridgway. 

Children: 

1. Phebe Ann Ridgway, married Dr. James Rush. 

2. Susan Ridgway, married (i) Thomas Roach; (2) Dr. 

John Rhea Barton. 

3. Benjamin Ridgway. 

4. Caroline Ridgway. 

5. John Jacob Ridgway. 

ii. Robert Turner Rawle, born February, 1775. 
iii. William Hudson Rawle, born February, 1778; died August, 
1778. 



V. Elizabeth Hudson, married Anthony Morris. 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline 

Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



Samuel Langdale, William Hudson, Mary Pleasant, Rebecca Jones and Lydia Love. Residue of real estate 
to niece Rebecca Ridgway. Executors named, James Smith, Jacob Ridgway and Rebecca Ridgway. In a 
paper annexed to the will were bequests to Susan H. Parke, bed curtains, etc. ; Ann Parke, silver cream pot ; 
Susan Morris, eight tablespoons and soupspoon ; William Carman, silver tankard ; Rebecca Ridgway a 
silver porringer ; Sally Parke a silver can ; Sally Carman a case of knives ; Mary Fisher a silver coffee pot 
and twelve teaspoons and tongs that " my sister Molly devised me to give them to her and I choose to comply 
with her request." Balance of personal property to Rebecca Ridgway, Sally Carman, Jane Parke and Mary 
Fisher. 

Codicil without date, all estate bequeathed to niece, Rebecca Ridgway, since deceased, be given to her 
five children, Susanna Rotch, Phebe Ann, Benjamin, Caroline and John Jacob Ridgway. Signed in the 
presence of Richard C. Wood. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber vi,, foho 487.) 



ii6 THE ANCESTRY OF 



KUHN. 

Generation VII. 

George Martin Ki^hn, son of John Kuhn (a magistrate of Berwangen, 
who died before November 30, 1676), was assistant jurat of the court at Fiir- 
feld, a village on the Neckar, in the province of Wiirtemberg. He married, 
November 30, 1676, at Fiirfeld/ Barbara, daughter of Frederick (Ponmes?), a 
Justice of the Peace. 

Child of George Martin and Barbara Kuhn : 

I. John Christopher Kuhn, born December 16, 1684; died 1754; married January 
31, 1713, Margaret Reichss. 



VI. 

John Christopher Kuhn, son of George Martin and Barbara Kuhn, 
born at Fiirfeld, December t6, 1684; baptized December 19, 1684; died in 
Maiden Creek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1754; married at Fiir- 
feld, January 31, 1713, Margaret Reichss, daughter of Marx Reichss, who died 
prior to his daughter's marriage. 

John Christopher Kuhn seems to have removed from Fiirfeld after the 
birth of his second child in 1716, and appears as a citizen of Hiitten in 1719, 
where he continued until 1732, and on April 25 of that year received a per- 
mit in preparation for his emigration to Pennsylvania, of which the following 
is a translation : 

The Highborn Count and Lord Johann Reinharden Count of Hanau Rhieneck and 
Zweibriicken, Lord of Miintzenherg, l.iechtenberg and Ochsenstein, Llereditary Marshall 
and Chief Governor of Strasburg etc. We, the counsellors named to form the Council 
here, make known to everybody, that the bearer of these presents, Christoph Chun, sub- 
ject of our most gracious Lordship, at Hiitten in due manner informed us that he wanted 



1 Extract from the Parish Register at Fiirfeld (in the Greichgau). Translated by Hartman Kuhn. 

Anno 1684 on the i6th of December (?) a son was born to George Martin Kuhn assistant jurat of our 
court and to Barbara his wife, and was baptized on the 19th and named John Christopher. His godfathers were 
George Christopher Herbst, huntsman, in the dominion of Huftenheim, and John Biillinger, legitimate son 
of the late Christopher Biillinger citizen of this place. 

Anno 1713 on the 31 January, John Christopher Kuhn, legitimate unmarried son of George Martm 
Kuhn, was married to Margaret daughter of the late Marx Reichss, a citizen of Sernum in Piertrigan in 
Grannbeinden, after having been proclaimed from the pulpit three times. 

Anno 1713 the 26th of December at 8 o'clock P.M. a son named Adam Simon, was born to John 
Christopher Kuhn, citizen here and to Margaret his wife, and was baptized on the 28th of the same month. 
His godfather was John Simon Reisig legitimate son of John Simon Reisig from Biberach and his godmother 
was Anna Margaret, the daughter of the late Christian Flitz owner of the farm Wisenbach near Leichheim. 

Anno 1716 on the 2nd of August at 7 o'clock P.M. a daughter was born to John Christopher Kuhn 
ci'tizen of this place and to Margaret his wife, and was baptized on the 4th of August and named Anna 
Rosina. Her godmothers were Anna Rosina Reisig wife of Hans Simon Reisig a citizen of Kochendorf and 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON n; 



lo leave his place and go to Pennsylvania and therefore asked most respectfully, to be 
relieved from vassalage. 

And as our above said most gracious Lordship does not think of being opposed 
to anybody's fortune and therefore also would like to see Christoph Chun getting his 
share, the same (Chun) in accordance with his desire, and after due settlement, has been 
discharged from vassalage, in witness whereof it is herewith stated, that no further claims 
will be made on him on that account from our most gracious Lordship and that hence- 
forth he is to be considered a free person. 

In witness whereof the great seal of the Council of the High Count of Hanau Liech- 
tenberg has been afifixed hereunto. Given in Buchsweyler, on the twenty fifth April One 
thousand seven hundred thirty two.- 

John Christopher Kuhn embarked from Rotterdam on the ship Hope, of 
London, Daniel Reed, master. After arriving at Philadelphia the passengers 
were qualified on August 28, 1733. In the list of passengers preserved at Har- 
risburg appear the following : ^ 



Cristofifei Kown 


age 48 


Margrita Kon 


" 43 


Adam Simon Kown 


" 19 


Efa Barbra Kon 


" 13 


Anna Maria Kon 


" 9 



Among the family papers is the original receipt for the passage money of 
the family: 



Anna Margaret wife of John Adam Lowe a citizen of Helmstadt, who was present at the baptism as 
representative of his wife. 

This has been extracted and copied on proper request from the parish register of this place. 
Witness my hand and seal here at Fiirfeld 

Anno 1718 April the 4th Petrus Born, Minister [seal] 

Additional records from Fiirfeld, Wiirttemberg, May, 1905, with reference to George Martin Kuhn and 
his wife Barbara. 

Year 1682 and the 4th of July, christened a baby boy named John George. Witnesses, George Christoph 
Herbst, a Hunter, or gamekeeper, and Hans BuUinger. 

Year 1684 the i6th of 7^^ a boy born and christened the 19th inst., in the name of Nans Christof. Witnesses, 
George Christof Herbst, a Hunter, and Hans Bullinger. 

Year 1689, the 27th 8'"' or 9*"' a girl born, Maria Katharina. Witnesses as above. 

Year 1693, the 14th of April, christened a boy named John Friedrich. Witness, Hans Bullinger, attorney 
here. 

Year 1694, the 19th September, born and christened the 20th of September, Maria Elizabet. Witness John 
Bullinger. 

Year 1699, the 17th July, bom and christened on the 19th July, Anna Maria. Witness, Mrs. Margarete, 

Hans Bullinger's wife. 

Marriage, year 1676, on the joth of November, George Martin Kuhn, son of the deceased Magistrate of 

Berwangen, Hans Kuhn, and Barbara, legitimate daughter of Friedrich Ponmes, Justice of the Peace. (This 

name is not clear. The first letter appears to be an F, and may be Fonmes, or Ponmer.) 

Marriage, year 1713, on the 31st of January, John Christoph Kohn, the single son of George Martin Kohn, 

Justice of the Peace, to Margareta, single daughter of the deceased Marx Fuchs, citizen in Serneus (?) 

Prettigau, in Graubunden. 

"^ From Kuhn family Bible. 

* Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. xvii., pp. 87, 89, 91. 



ii8 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Rec'd from Christof Kuliii twenty one poinids five shillgs & ten pence value in cash & 
notes which with fourteen pounds lie paid in Holland is in lull for four & half fraits & the 



head money in the Ship Hope 
I'hilad^' 5'" /'"" i733- 



^ B. Shoemaker 



John Christopher Kiihn, of Philadelphia County, (in which then were 
included tiie present Berks and Montgomery) was naturalized March 28, 
1747;'' at the time of liis death he was a resident of Maiden Creek Township, 
Berks County.'^ 

Children of John Christopher Kuhn and Margaret Reichss : ^ 

1. ADAM SIMON KUHN, also written John Adam Simon Kuhn, horn Decemher 

26, 1713; died January 23, 1780; married December 11, 1740, Anna Maria 
Sabina Schrack. 

2. Anna Rosina Kuhn. born August 2, 1716; baptized at Fiirfeld. August 4, 1716. 

3. Eva Barbara Kuhn, born August 8, 1719; baptized at Hiitten, August 10, 1719. 

4. Anna Maria Kuhn. born December 13, 1722; baptized at Hiitten, December 16, 

1722. 

5. Maria Margaretha Kuhn, born August 24, 1725; baptized at Hiitten, August 

26, 1725. 

6. Maria Catiiarina Kuhn, born July 16, 1728; baptized at Hiitten, July 18, 1728. 

7. Maria Magdalena Kuhn, born December 29, 1731; baptized the Sunday after 

Christmas, at Hiitten. 



* Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. ii., p. 372. 

^ Letters of administration were granted on the estate of Christopher Kuhn of Maiden Creek Town- 
shi]-), BerliS County, to the widow Margaret Kuhn, Adam vSimon Kuhn, Esquire, of Lancaster, the eldest son, 
and Leonard Riever, February 15, 1754. 

^Translation of German Extract from the Church Register at Hiitten. 

Extract from the parish register of this place concerning John Christoph Kohnen, late protestant citizen at 
this place and his children Eva Barbara, Anna Maria, Maria Margaretha, Maria Catherina, Maria Magdalene. 

1. On Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock, on the 8th of August 1719, a daughter has been born to John 
Christoph Kohnen, police officer here, and to Margaretha his wife, who received the Christian baptism on the 
loth of the same month and was named Eva Barbara. The godfather was John Drechsler, legitimate son of 
Benedict Drechsler, police officer here. The godmothers were Eva, wife of Melchior Wiedemann, a citizen and 
butcher at this place, and Barbara, legitimate unmarried daughter of the late Jacob Spielmann, citizen of this 
place. 

2. On Sunday the 13th of December 1722 at 2 o'clock in the morning a daughter has been born to 
John Christoph Kohnen, a citizen from this place, by his wife Margaretha, she has been baptized privately 
and named Anna Maria ; her public christening has been done on the i6th ejusd. Her godfather and 
godmothers were Hans George Kerner, unmarried ; Anna Maria legitimate daughter of Ulrich Dietschen the 
brickmaker here and Anna Maria, legitimate daughter of George Leopold, cowkeeper of this place. 

3. On the 24th of Aug. 1725 has been born and baptized the 26th Maria Margaretha. The parents are 
Christoph Kuhn, a citizen from here and his wife Margaretha, nee Ruchin. The Godfather and Godmothers 
were George Claus, a citizen from this place, Maria legitimate daughter of Philipp Seelingmann, a citizen 
and potter at this place, and Magdalina, wife of Conrad Ramge. 

4. On the i6th of July 1728 Maria Catherina has been born, baptized immediately, and christined 
publicly before the congregation on the i8th. The father is John Christoph Kuhn, a citizen from here and 
the mother Margaretha nee Ruchin. The godfather and godmothers are Caspar, legitimate son of John 
George Leopold, the cow keeper from here; Anna Catherine, wife of John Jacob Gulemann, a citizen and 
cabinet maker, and Martha legitimate daughter of John Heupi, a citizen from here and superintendent of the 
milk farm at Belach. 

5. On the 29th of December 1731 has been born Maria Magdalena and baptized on Sunday after 
Christmas. The parents are John Christoph Kuhn, a citizen here and Margaretha, nee Ruchin. The god- 



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ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 119 



V. 

Adam Simon Kuhn, son of John Christopher Kuhn and Margaret 
Reichss, born at Fiirfeld m Wiirtemberg, December 26, 1713; baptized Decem- 
ber 28, 1713; died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1780;' buried at 
Trinity Lutheran Church, in that place; married December 11, 1740, Anna 
Maria Sabina Schrack, born on the high seas, October 26, 1717; baptized in 
Swedes' Church, Philadelphia, January 12, 1718; died at Lancaster, 1799, aged 
' eighty-four years and two months " ; '^ daughter of John Jacob and Eva Rosina 
Schrack." (Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trappe, Pennsylva- 
nia, where the name is entered as Johann Adam Simon Kuhn.) 

Adam Simon Kulin was living in Germantown, Philadelphia County, in 
1 741, when his son Adam was born, but removed to Lancaster County and was 
there naturalized April 8, 1744.^° He seems to have taken some part in mili- 
tary affairs at the time of the French and Indian War, as is shown by the fol- 
lowing : 

Sir: 

I take the freedom to trouble you with these few lines concerning some powder 
& lead if there is any to be had, as our Company is in need of it at Adam Reeds. I am not 
able to leave my room otherwise 1 would come to see you myself. 

Sir, 
Lancaster, 26th November, 1755. I am yours 

To Edward Shippen, Esq. , Adam Simon Kuhn 

Adam Simon Kuhn " was a man of bright natural parts, improved by the 
benefits of a liberal education ; and was considered as a very skilful, attentive, 
and successful practitioner of medicine." 

He was Chief Burgess of the town of Lancaster from September, 1749, 
until 1753;" was commissioned a Justice of the Lancaster County Courts, 
1752, I76i,.i764 and 1770;^- was chosen a member of the Committee of Ob- 
servation and Correspondence in Lancaster County, December 15, 1774, and 
was a delegate to the Provincial Convention held at Philadelphia, January 23, 
1775.12 



father and godmothers were George Kuntz a citizen and linen weaver from here and Margaretha the legitimate 
daughter of John Henry Christian, a citizen and cooper at this place, and besides Magdalene, unmarried 
daughter of Conrad Ramge, a citizen and potter from here. 

The above extract is an authentic copy from the parish register of the Evangel. Luther. Church here. 
Hiitten, April i8th 1733 John Frederick Ehrenpfort 

Minister in the Dominion of the 

Count of Hanau Liechtenberg. 

' " Tan. 23, 1780, at five O'clock in the morning, died D^ Adam Simon Kuhn Esq^ Having suffered 
five years" with dropsy.' He was followed to his resting place by a large concourse of people, to the new 
cemetery of the church of the Holy Trinity and buried. Pastor Schultz held the funeral sermon, from Luke 
12-35-38. He was 66 years and one month less a few days old." (Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, 

Lancaster.) 

8 The age on the tombstone at Lancaster, which is given above, is evidently not entirely correct, 
a Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 

10 Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, vol. ii , p. 366. 

11 Ibid., vol. ix., p. 774. 
•2 Ibid., pp. 773, 774. 

13 Ibid., vol. iii., pp. 550, 592. 



I20 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Dr. Kiilin was an elder of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, where 
tiiere is a tablet to his memory. He was the principal, and almost the only 
person who was actively concerned for the promotion of classical learning 
amongst the youth (jf that community. For this end he procured the erection 
of a school house, in which the Greek and Latin languages were taught by the 
best qualified masters. 

Children of Adam Simon Kuhn and Anna Maria Sabina Schrack : 

1. ADAM KUHN, born Novemljer 17, 1741; died July 5, 1817; married May 14, 1780, 

Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe. 

2. JoiiN Kuhn, born 1746; died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1810; mar- 

ried Susannah , of Reading.^* John Kuhn graduated from the 

Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1771, and was also a 
graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He was a surgeon in the 
Continental Army. He left three children. 

3. JoHANN Fredekich KuiiN, born August 2J., 1748; baptized in Lancaster, Septem- 

ber 4, 1748; died April 2, 1816; buried at Columbia, Pennsylvania; mar- 
ried 1782, Sarah Bethel, died 1797; daughter of Samuel Bethel, of Lan- 
caster. Johann Frederich Kuhn (known as Frederick) graduated from 
the Medical School, LTniversity of Pennsylvania, 1771; served through 
the Revolution as surgeon in the Third Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia; 
was Sherifif of Lancaster County in 1789 and associate Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas. He was a member of St. James P. E. Church, Lan- 
caster. His name is on list of the Assembly Balls in that town in 1789. 

4. Daniel Kuiin, born November 14, 1750; baptized in Lancaster, November 18, 

1750. 

5. Peter Kuhn, born 1751; died November 27, 1826; married Elizabeth Keppele, 

born 1758; died 1799; daughter of John Henry Keppele and Anna Cath- 
arina Bauer. Peter Kuhn was a merchant, residing at the southeast 
corner of Tenth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. He entered the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. 1765, receiving his degree in 1768; was member 
of the State in Schuylkill Fishing Company, May i, 1769; resigned 
March 21, 1801. 

Children: 
i. Peter Kuhn, married at Gibraltar, Spain, December 18, 1802, 

Anne Storm, daughter of Thomas Storm, of New York. 

Peter Kuhn was consul at Genoa, 1808. 
ii. Daniel Kuhn, died at Gibraltar, November, 1805. 
iii. Catherine S. Kuhn, died in Philadelphia, April 4, 1825. 
iv. Eliza Kuhn, married at Gibraltar, May 12, 1803. Hugh Green, 

Esquire. 
V. George Keppele Kuhn, born 1788; died 1852; married May 30, 

1817, Lucy Ann Keen, born March 29, 1788; died 1832. 

Children: 

1. George Lawrence Kuhn, died July, 1821. 

2. John Lardner Kuhn, died Burlington, New Jersey, July, 

1825. 



"Will of Col. George J- Ross, late of city of New Orleans, dated May 28, 1816, proved March 31, 
1817, mentions Aunt Susanna, wife of John Kuhn, and nieces Maria and Sarah Kuhn and Polly Bird. 
(Lancaster County Wills.) 



i 



t 



ADAM KUHN m. iMay 14, j 



son of Adam Simon and 

Anna Maria Sabina (Schraclv) Kuhn, 
b. Nov. 17, 1741; 
d. July 5, 1817. 



Hartman Kulin, 
b. Feb. 4, 1784; 
d. Nov. (i, 1800; 
in. Dec. 15, 1818, 
Ellen Lyle, 

dau. of .James and Ann (Hamilton) Lj'le. 



I 

Cornelius, 
b. Apr. 30, 1809; 
d. Aug. 15, 1816. 



I 

Elizal)eth, 
b. Mar. 3, 1811; 
d. Jan. 30, 1824. 



Hartinan, 
b. Dec. 6, 1812; 
d. May 13, 1892; 
m. Feb. 3, 1842, 

Mary Kuim. 

(Issiie ; see below). 



I 

Marv, 
b.'Oct. 5, 1819; 
d. Nov. 6, 1886; 
m. Feb. 3, 1842, 
Hartman Kuhn. 



I 

Charles, 

b. Nov. 2, 1821; 
d. Oct. 28. 1899; 
m. Apr. 13, 1854, 

Louisa C. Adams. 
(No surviving i.ssue.) 



Ellen, 
b. Aug. 13, 1S23; 
d. Apr. 11, 1894; 
m. Apr. 14, 1846, 

Manlius G. Evans. 



Elizabeth , 
b. Julv 1)>' 
d. Apr. 2 ■ 



William Kuhn, 
1). Nov. 18, 1842; 
m. ; no issue. 

Frederick Kulm, 
b. Dee. 16, 1843; d. Dec. 22, 1844. 

Mary Hamilton Kuhn, 
b. May 9, 1845; d. Feb. 17. 1886; 
m. June 5, 1876, Joseph C. Harris. 
( Issue. ) 

Ellen Kuhn, 
b. May 31, 1848; d. July 7, 1852. 

Charles Kuhn. 
b. Feb. 15, 1847; d. Au^. 26. 1889; 
m. Jan. 11, 1877, Mary D. Mason. 

('<irnc'li\is Hartman Kuhn, 
b. July 4, 1854. 

Elizabeth Ella Kuhn, 
b. Nov. 4, 1857; d. May 22, 1858. 



C'adwalader Evans, 
b. Jan. 22, 1847 ; d. Jan ), 
m. May 28, 1872, Lena If 
(Issue.) 

Ellen Lyle Evans, 
b. June 16, 1848; d. Mai, 



Ellen Lyle Evans, 
b. Nov. 21, 18.51; 
m. June 11, 1872, Alfret 
(Issue.) 

Hosalie Evans, ' 

b. Aug. 25, 1854; j 

m. Sept. 16. 1897, Franl] 

Julia Evans, 
b. June 7, 1856; d. Oct. 

Hartman Kulm Evans, 
b. Jan. 8, 1800; 
m. Sept. 26, 1899. Mabe" 



(HARTMAN) MARKOE. 

dau. of Isaac and Margaret Hartman, 
and widow of Francis Markoe, 
b. Aug. 20, 1755; 
d. Feb. 25, 1791. 



iter Yard. 



I 

William Kiihn, 
b. June 15, 1789; 
d. June 28. 1789. 



I 

milv, 

b. Mar. 10, 1816; 
d. Oct. 22, 1848; 
m. May 5, 1846. 

Samuel T. Harrison. 



I 

William, 
b. Dec. 27, 1817; 
d. Aug. 21, 1837. 



I 

Edward, 
b. Oct. 21, 1819; 
d. Dec. 25, 1819. 



ill. 



I 

Eniilv Kuhn Harrison, 
b. Oct. 17, 1848; 
d. June 26, 1870; 
m. July 8, 1869, S. H. Lyon; 
(No issue.) 



Edward, 
b. Nov. 28, 1820; 
d. Aug. 22, 1824. 



::9; 

11. 



I 

Hartman, 
b. Feb. 22, 1831; 
d. Jan. 21, 1870; 
m. Apr. 6, 1865, 
Grace M. Gary. 



Elizabeth, 
b. Apr. 24, 1833; 
d. Oct. 13, 1890; 
m. July 15, 1856, 

George Calvert Morris. 



I I 

Sophia, James Hamilton, 

b. June 5, 1835; b. Dec. 2, 1838; 

d. Oct. 7, 1SS5; d. June 30, 1862; 

unni. unin. 



I 

Hamilton Kuhn, 
b. Jan. 8, 1866; 
d. Jan 26, 1902; 
unm. 



— .lulia Morris, 
b. Sept. 10, 1857; d. Apr. 3, 1839. 

— Ellen Lvle Morris, 
b. Mai-. 6, 1859; d. Apr. 1, 1900; 
m. Oct. 26, 1885, Pierre Camhlos. 

— Hartman Kuhn Morris, 
b. Dec. 30, 1860; d. July 29, 1861. 

— Caroline Calvert Morris, 
h. May 19, 1862; 
m. Sept. 21, 1892, James Cheston, Jr. 

— Rosalie Morris, 
b. Jan. 17, 1864; d. Aug. 5, 1903. 
m. Nov. 10, 1887, Robert Winder Johnson. 

— Eugenia Morris, 

h. Julv 5, 1865; 

m. Oct. 28, 1886, Radeliflfe Cheston. M.D. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 121 



6. Maria Sabina Kuhn, born September 18, 1755; baptized at Lancaster, October 

5, 1755; married James Ross, Esquire, and in 1798 had at least one child. 
Mary Ross, mentioned in will of Maria, widow of Adam Simon Kuhn. 

7. John Jacob Kuhn, born October 30. 1757; bapti2ed at Lancaster, November 6, 

1757- 

8. Hannah Kuhn, born November 13, 1761; baptized at Lancaster. November 22, 

1761. 

9. Eve Kuhn, married prior to August 15, 1798, Swope. 

The will of Maria Kuhn, of the Borough of Lancaster, widow of Adam 
Simon Kuhn, Esq., " sick and weak in body," was dated August 15, 1798, and 

proved 1798. It devised to her daughter, Eve Swope, two hundred and 

rifty pounds; to her daughter, Maria, wife of James Ross, Esq., three hundred 
pounds; to her granddaughter, Mary Ross, her best feather bed, etc.; to her 
son, Jacob, his note for three hundred pounds held by the testator; to grand- 
children, Maria and Augustus Kuhn, children of son John, one hundred pounds 
to be equally divided between them ; to Elizabeth Schrack, daughter of the tes- 
tator's brother, John Schrack, fifty pounds ; to the trustees of the Lutheran 
Church of Lancaster, one hundred potuids, on condition that they and their 
successors allow a pew in the said church to the family of the testator for thirty 
years. The residue of the estate to be equally divided between her children, 
Adam, John, Frederick, Peter, and Jacob Kuhn, Eve Swope and Maria, wife 
of James Ross, Esq. Executors, son Frederick Kuhn and friend Lewis Heck. 
Witnessed by William Reichenbach and Cas. Shafifer. (Lancaster County 
Wills, Liber I, vol. i., folio 268.) 

IV. 

Adam Kuhn, son of Adam Simon and Anna Maria Sabina (Schrack) 
Kuhn, born in Germantown, November 17, 1741 ; died in Philadelphia, July 5, 
1817, at 8 p.m., in his seventy-sixth year; married May 14, 1780, on the Island 
of St. Croix, Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe, born August 20, 1755; died Feb- 
ruary 25, 1 791 ; widow of Francis Markoe^^ and daughter of Isaac Hartman 
and Margaret Carroll Nanton, of that island. 



15 Peter Markoe, said to be of a family wliich emigrated to the West Indies from Montbeliard, Franche 
Comte, France, about 1625, was born 1702 and died in 1747. 

Children : 

1. Peter Markoe, born January 10, 1722. 

2. John Markoe, born August 25, 1723. 

3. James Markoe, born May 26, 1725. 

4. Abram Markoe, born July 2, 1727; died August 28, 1806; married (i) aljout 1751, Elizabeth 

Kenny Rogers; (2) December 16, 1773, Elizabeth Boynton. 

5. Francis Markoe, born July 4, 1729 ; died January, 1736. 

6. Elizabeth Markoe, born May 6, 1732 ; died December 16, 1801 ; married Frank Crequi. 

7. Isaac Markoe, born July 4, 1735; died December 6, 1777 ; married Elizabeth . 

8. Mary Markoe, born September 23, 1737. 

9. Francis Markoe (2nd), born September 20, 1740; died circa 1779; married June 15, 1769, 

Elizabeth Hartman. 
10. John Markoe (2nd), born August 15, 1743. 



122 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

A biographical notice of Dr. Adam Kuhn, by Dr. Physic, who was one 
of his pupils, was printed in the Eclectic Repertory of April, 1818, from which 
the following abstracts are made : 

" Adam Ivuhn's first studies in medicine were directed by his father, until 
the autumn of 1761 ; when he sailed for Europe, and arrived at Upsal, Sweden, 
by way of London, in the beginning of January, 1762; having traversed Nor- 
way and part of Sweden. He studied medicine and botany under Linnaeus, and 
the other professors of the University of Upsal, until July or August, 1764." 
" His degree of Doctor of Medicine was taken, in the University of Edinburgh, 
June 12, 1767, the thesis published by him on the occasion, ' De Lavatione 
Frigida,' was dedicated to his friend and instrttctor, Linnaeus." 

Dr. Physic includes in his sketch the translations of several letters written 
in Latin by Linnaeus at Upsal, Sweden, to Dr. Adam Kuhn, and to his father : 

NO. I. 

Upsal, 2d February, 1762. 
Mr. Adam S. Kuhn, 
Sir, 

About three weeks ago, your son, of great promise, and endowed with most 
engaging manners, arived here; who, after so long a voyage, has reached this Academy 
in safety and good health. 



Francis Markoe, son of Peter M irkoe, born in Spanish Town, West Indies, September 20, 1740 ; died 
circa 1779 ; married June 15, 1769, Elizabeth Hartman, daughter of Isaac and Margaret. 

Children of Francis Markoe and Elizabeth Hartman : 

1. Margaret Markoe, born November 7, 1770; died May 28, 1836; married (i) November 17, 

1791, Benjamin Franklin Bache ; (2) June 28, 1800, William Duane. 

2. Peter Markoe, born November 19, 1771 ; died 1841 ; married Mary Aletta Heyliger, and had 

four sons and two daughters. 

3. Francis Markoe, born June 5, 1774, died February 16, 1848 ; married Sarah Caldwell. 

4. Elizabeth Markoe, born June 11, 1775 ; died March 5, 1855 ; married Samuel Prom, Chamber- 

lain to the King of Denmark. 

Children : 

i. Sarah Prom, married Major Rowan, of the British Army, 
ii. Ann Eliza Prom, married Herr Scheel of the Danish Navy, 
iii. Mary Prom, married the Rev. Mr. Oerstrup. 

Margaret Markoe, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Markoe, born November 7, 1770 ; died May 28, 
1836; married (i) November 17, 1791, Benjamin Franklin Bache, born August 12, 1769 ; died September 11, 
1798 ; grandson of Benjamin Franklin ; (2) June 28, 1800, William Duane, born May 17, 1760. 

Children of Benjamin Franklin Bache and Margaret Markoe : 

1. Franklin Bache, born October 25, 1792; married May 28, 1818, Algai Dabadie, born 

September 28, 1796. 

2. Richard Bache, born September 16, 1794. 

3. Benjamin Bache, born August 7, 1796. 

4. Hartman Bache, born September 3, 1798. 

Children of William Duane and Margaret (Markoe) Bache : 

5. Elizabeth Duane, born April 21, . 

6. Sidney Duane, born June 27, 1803 ; died September 10, 1804. 

7. Edward Markoe Duane, born March 8, 1805. 

8. Anastasia Duane, born Decembers, 1806. 

9. Margaret Markoe Diiane, born April 21, 1809. 
10. Emma Duane, born February 29, 1812. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 123 



e 



He will receive from me the most disinterested advice; I will cherish him with 
parental affection, and will at no time omit anything that can contribute to his assistanc 
or advancement, as long as he may chuse to avail himself of my counsels. 

At this Academy he can learn the History and Diagnosis of diseases, Materia 
Medica and Natural History, better and more thoroughly than perhaps in any other place. 
And if I should live for three years more, he will be a Doctor of Medicine, not only in 
name, but also in knowledge. 

If he is to expend yearly in this place, the same sum which Mr. Wrangel is to bring 
back from his country, he ought to obtain from him a written order, under his own hand, 
of taking up money; in this manner both will be benefited. 

If you should meet Mr. Bartram. who wrote to me and sent me some plants, I 
beg you to make my respects to him, and tell him. that amongst the plants there was only 
one that was really new, which, with a high single stalk, with numerous setaceous leaves 
on the stalk, resembled in appearance the daffodil, and should be classed with the genus 
Helonias. 

Remember me affectionately to Mr. Wrangel, to whom I am under great obligations 
for his letter and his undissembled friendship. 

And now, you may live at ease as it respects your son; and remain assured, that 
as long as he is disposed to take my advice, he will be as safe with me as with his own 
father. 

Farewell, and may you live long, and prosperously. 



NO. II. 

Upsal, 24th February, 1763. 
Mr. Adam S. Kuhn, 

Sir^ 

You recommended your son to my care; concerning whom I am now able 
to speak with more certainty. He lives in a house next door to me, so that I can daily 
enjoy his conversation, and inspect his morals and studies. His mind is always aspiring, 
and his very amiable disposition gives general satisfaction: so that he is beloved and es- 
teemed by us all. 

He is unwearied in his studies in every branch of medicine; nor does he suffer a 
single hour to pass by, unimproved. He long since began to taste the sweets of science. 
He daily and faithfully studies Materia Medica with me. He has learnt the symptomatic 
history of diseases, in an accurate and solid manner. In Natural History and Botany, 
he has made remarkable progress; such indeed as he will never repent; so that, God 
willing, he will hereafter see his country with different eyes, than when he left it. He 
has studied Anatom\^ and Physiology with other Professors. Next summer, during the 
vacation, he can go to the country, to a farm of mine, very near the city, where he may 
make daily progress in the studies he has commenced. I have been surprised that he has 
never been afflicted with homesickness; the only thing that has caused him uneasiness 
was not receiving any letters from the best of fathers. You have ventured to send your 
beloved son to a foreign country; should it be his fate to return to you, I will engage that 
you will never repent what you have done. In a word, he lives in the most temperate and 
correct manner. He observes good order in the management of his affairs; nor have any 
of the allurements of youth, which are apt to ensnare young men, made an impression on 
him. Therefore, I congratulate both you and myself on this your son; and I declare, 
most sacredly, that I have never known any one more correct in deportment or superior 
in application. 

For the truth of this I pledge my honour. 



124 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

NO. III. 
Mr. Kuhn, Upsal, 8th October, 1764. 

My Dear Friend, 

1 this day received your letter, and rejoice exceedingly that the All Gracious 
God has conducted you in safety to England; and 1 hope that He also will grant you a 
safe return to your friends. 

My whole lamily was extremely glad to learn that you were well, and desire to be 
affectionately remembered to you. 

Wallerius the Professor of Theology, Professor Dahlman, and the wife of Mr. 
Amnel, have died, this summer. 

I have heard a great deal of the excellent Mrs. Monson, whom I esteem and honour 
more than any other woman in the world; I pray and beseech you to make my most de- 
voted respects to her. 

I lately received from Siberia, a live Cimicifuga. a species of actea, which gave 
me infinite pleasure. 

I have many new genera from the East Indies, not yet described; I could, and will- 
ingly would, consecrate one of them to the perpetual memory of the engaging Mrs. Mon- 
son; but for that purpose I would wish to procure the most beautiful plant in her garden. 
If she has any of a new genus, and you will send it to me, dried, you will quickly find 
that I have fulfilled my intention. 

A new edition of the genera has appeared, in which your genus is described; the 
Museum of the queen's society has also been published. I could wish to send you these 
two small works, if I knew to whom to entrust them. 

I have not the smallest doubt that Dr. Solander has admirably described his scarce 
plants, as he was one of the most solid Botanists amongst my pupils; I beg you to give 
my best respects to him. 

I lament, beyond measure, the untimely end of Mr. Forscalleus; and it was not in 
my power to refrain from tears. In his death the best interests of science have sustained 
a greater loss than I can bear to think of. 

Continue to inform me of your movements, let me know what countries you visit, 
and what you meet with worthy of observation; and remain my steadfast friend, as I 
shall ever remain yours. 

Farewell, continue to remember me. 



NO. IV. 
Mr. Adam Kuhn, Upsal, February 20, 1767. 

My Dear Friend, 

I have learnt from j'our letter, that you are about to produce the first proof 
of your acquirements, in an essay. On the power and efftcacy of the Cold Bath on the 
Human Body; I therefore cannot refrain from heartily congratulating you on this little 
work, since I shall ever regard what occurs favourable and fortunately for you, in the 
same light as if it had happened to myself; for, from the period in which, having set sail 
from the shores of your favoured Pennsylvania, you reached our city of Upsal, I have 
ever cherished you as a beloved son, for your correct and engaging deportment, in which 
none of the foreigners excelled you; for your unwearied ardor and application in cultivating 
the sciences, in which you were surpassed by no one; for your undisguised friendship, in 
which none could have ecpialled you. Nothing will be more ardently desired by me than 
that, being speedily restored to your friends, you may long prosperously flourish and 
collect the wonderful treasures of your country; where I may hope to see, with your 
eyes, a naost beautiful region, abounding with as many rare Mammalia, Birds, Amphibia, 
Fishes, Insects, &c. as perhaps any other country in the world. For I seem to myself 
to behold you wandering in your native woods, amongst Liriodendrons. &c. interspersed 
with Liquidambars, &c., amongst which the ground is strewed and covered with Helian- 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 125 

thuses, &c. while the Humming Birds, shaking their golden wings, sip the nectar of the 
Chelone, and the different kinds of Mocking Birds, join in a thousand melodious notes, 
amongst hosts of winged songsters, from the tops of the trees. But a year would scarcely 
suffice to enumerate, much less to describe the enjoyments of your paradise. Finally, I 
beg, that when on your return, and your eyes are feasting on the delights of your flowers, 
you may still remember me. 



NO. V. 

Mr. Adam Kuhn, Upsal, 26th February, 1767. 

My Dear Friend, 

I this day received your letter dated 12th of January, and observed with the 
greatest pleasure, that you have been appointed Professor of Botany, and Materia Medica 
in the College of Philadelphia; on which I most cordially congratulate you.i^ 

I mentioned this circumstance to my wife and children, and they all participate the 
great joy, which your good fortune has occasioned me. 

I shall attend to your request respecting the societies, as soon as you write to me 
from your own country. 

Within these few days, I have brought to a conclusion, the first volume of the Sys- 
tema Naturae, which contains about ninety sheets; a second volume is now in the press, 
in which Mr. Hope will see his Hopea sent to me by Mr. Garden. 

My Clavis Medicinae, which was published upwards of a year ago might possibly be 
of service to you in the Materia Medica; I wish I knew how it could reach you; it consists 
of two sheets only, containing thirty-two pages 

I am well acquainted with Mr. Walker from his writings, and have frequently quoted 
him when treating on the zophytes. He is a most ingenious man, and I beg you to make 
my respects to him. 

I have indeed seen the eyes of the cuttle-fish, and you will find that I have not denied 
their existence; but still I am not convinced that they are really eyes; perhaps some organ 
of sense., to us unknown. 

I wrote, if I mistake not, that we last year, celebrated the nuptials of Miss Gran 
Caissa. She now resides at Huggby; not in your house, but in the adjoining one. She 
married Andrew Ersen, the son of a farmer of that place. At her wedding we drank to 
your health. 

My whole family desires to be most affectionately remembered to you. 

If you should meet the celebrated Plope, beg from him some American seeds for 
me; many of those formerly sent, through his kindness, germinated and sprouted. 

Mr. Baeckman, who succeeded to your place and chamber, and remained with me 
a year and a half, has already been appointed Professor of Natural History at Gottingen. 

Mr. Konig, a former pupil of mine, returned last year from Iceland, with many 
new things in natural science. 

When you next write, address your letter to the Royal Society of Sciences, Upsal; 
for I open all the letters myself, therefore there is no occasion for a cover. 



NO. VI. 

Mr. Adam Kuhn, Upsal, 20th November, 177— 

My Dear Friend, 

As a good opportunity offers of sending a letter to you by a young clergy- 
man i'^ of ours, who is going to your favoured Pennsylvania, I cannot let it pass without 
writing, to pay my respects to you, and to recommend him to you as a truly learned man. 



16 There must be some mistake here ; Dr. Kuhn was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and 
Botany in January, 1768. 

"Doctor Nicholas Collin, pastor of the Swedish Church of Philadelphia. 



126 THE ANCESTRY OF 

I am very much obliged to you for the transactions of your society,i^ and for having 
admitted me into the number of your members. This is evidently owing to your warm 
attachment to me, which I shall ever highly value. 

Your brother now resides at Upsal. He has been with me but three times. He 
resembles you extreniely, both in his appearance and engaging manners. i'' 

I send with this, my second Mantissa, which perhaps you have not yet seen. 

I wish you would give to the world a dissertation on the Asteres of your country, 
which are very numerous; and that you would mark accurately their specific characters, 
as this genus is extremely difficult to ns Europeans. 

On the arrival of this clergyman of ours, another may possibly come to us from 
you; in that case, I pray and intreat you, to send me some dried plants and some seeds; 
amongst which I most ardently wish for the seeds of the Kuhnia, which perished in our 
garden. 

I have at present two pupils at the Cape of Good Hope, Messrs. Tunberg and Spar- 
mann, who are assiduously engaged in collecting plants. Next year, Tunberg will go to 
Japan, with the Dutch Legation. 

My whole family unites in wishes for your welfare. I am yours, whilst I live. 
Farewell. 

Dr. Ktihn having visited France, Holland and Germany, in the month of 
January, 1768, returned from London to his native country, and settled in 
Philadelphia, " where he quickly rose to an high degree of estimation amongst 
his elder medical brethren ; and soon succeeded to the most respectable prac- 
tice. He was appointed professor of Materia Medica and Botany in the College 
of Philadelphia, in January, 1768; and commenced his first course of Botany 
in May following. . . . 

" A society for inoculating the poor, for the small-pox, was instituted at 
Philadelphia in January, 1774, and Doctor Kuhn was chosen one of the physi- 
cians. It appears from the bills of mortality for 1773, that of one thousand 
three hundred and forty-four persons, who died in the City and Liberties dur- 
ing that time, above three hundred perished with the natural small-pox. . . . 

" In May, T775, Doctor Kuhn was elected one of the Physicians to the 
Pennsylvania Hospital ; which he attended until his resignation in January, 
1798, having served the institution with his usual diligence and faithfulness, 
upwards of twenty-one years." The Philadelphia Dispensary for the medical 
relief of the poor, the first institution of its kind in the United States, was 
founded in 1786. Doctor Kuhn was appointed one of the consulting physicians 
and ever proved himself to be among the foremost of its steady friends and 
patrons. 

The college of physicians of Philadelphia was established in 1787. Of this 
Doctor Kuhn was always an active member. On the decease of Doctor Wil- 
liam Shippen, in July, t8o8, he succeeded him as president, and continued to 
hold the position imtil his death. 

In November. 1789, he was appointed professor of the theory and practice 
of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, and, on the junction of the two 



^''The .American Philosophical Society. 

19 Daniel Kuhn, appointed pastor of the Swedish Church at Christiana, near Wilmington, Delaware; 
who died at London, without returning to his native country. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 127 



medical schools, of the College and University, was chosen professor of the 
practice of physic, in January, 1792. In 1797 he resigned his medical chair. 
As a teacher he was faithful and clear in the description of diseases, and in the 
mode of applying their appropriate remedies, mostly avoiding theoretical dis- 
cussions. His lectures were eminently calculated to form useful practitioners 
in the healing art, to the promotion of which his whole life was devoted. Doc- 
tor Kuhn was also a member of the American Philosophical Society. 

" Of his writings nothing can be recollected but his thesis, and a short 
letter, addressed to Doctor John Coakley Lettsom, on the diseases succeeding 
the transplantation of teeth, which was published in the first volume of the 
memoirs of the Medical Society of London. . . . 

" For some time before his death, his bodily strength began to fail, which 
induced him, in the autumn of 181 5, to relinquish his practice, to the great 
regret of families whom he had attended. . . . After a confinement to the 
house of about three weeks, he expired, July 5, 1817, aged seventy-five years; 
without pain, and fully sensible of his approaching dissolution." 

Dr. Adam Kuhn was named as Physician and Director General of the 
Hospital for Provincial Troops, under orders for New Jersey, October, 1776; 
he was arrested for doubtful loyalty to the United States, August 31, 1777. 
On October 9, 1780, he was committed to the New Prison, by Congress, as a 
suspicious character, whose going at large was dangerous to the Common- 
wealth. The naval officer was directed to take into his custody the sloop 
Elizabeth, lately arrived from St. Croix, with Dr. Kuhn and his family, the 
cargo of which vessel was to be unloaded and examined at Doctor Kuhn's 
expense. He was later ordered to leave the State, and to give security that he 
would not return during the war. 

On October 23, 1780, in compliance with a memorial from Dr. Kuhn, and 
petitions signed by the inhabitants of Philadelphia, he was released from his 
securities, but still not allowed to return. Petitions from his brothers, John, 
Frederick, Peter and Jacob Kuhn, were afterwards presented, and on March 
7, 1781, permission was granted to Dr. Kuhn to return to Pennsylvania. 

The following extracts from letters -'^ relate to the above incidents. The 
two earliest were from Miss Anna Rawle, afterwards the wife of John Clififord, 
to her mother, Mrs. Samuel Shoemaker, whose first husband was Francis 
Rawle. Mrs. Shoemaker was in New York at the time : 

Phila. Nov. 4, 1780. 
Dr. K. is gone down the river and landed at Newcastle. He is out of this state, and. 
I have heard, intends to try to stay. He was very stout and refused to give bail. The 
Dutch parsons interfered in his favour and sent in a remonstrance to council. Mrs. K. 
is really to be pitied; if she goes to sea she has there a thousand terrors and is very sick all 
the passage, and at New Castle has not an acquaintance or connection besides the Dr. I 
wonder Horatio [William Rawle the elder] did not think her pretty. Noboddy hardly 
saw her while she was here, but when she was in P. [Phila.] before, she was thought to 
have a very agreeable face. 



™From collection of William Brooke Rawle, Esq. 



128 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Phila. November ii, 1780. 
They say he [Dr. Kuhn] has gone from Newcastle and is pursuing his journey to Santa 
Cruz where he will no doubt amaze the lady's father with a relation of what he has suf- 
fered; half converting him perhaps, for he is said to be so good a whig that he is only 
waiting till the independence of America is fixed to come and reside in this land of liberty. 

Extract from letter of Mrs. Shoemaker to her daughter: 

New York, 5th day 16 Nov. 1780. 
I am very sorry Dr. K. has met with difficulties so unlocked for and which must have 
chagrined him prodigiously as he is much attached to Philad: and his reputation not only 
well established there, but every day increasing. I look upon him as the first of his pro- 
fession, and there must be numbers who will regret the loss of him exceedingly. 

Miss Anna Rawle to Mrs. Shoemaker: 

Phila. 6th. Feb. 1781. 

I have heard of Dr. Kuhn's arrival in Saint Croix, and that he has wrote to his friends 
urging them to petition council for leave for him to return. I did not think he had been 
so attached to Philadelphia. 

Phila. (No date; early in October 1781). 
Dr. K. has been expected every day for this two months. His friends begin to be 
uneasy at his long stay; it must be something of consequence that detains him or he would 
not be paying so high a rent for Syke's house all this time, but would come to take pos- 
session of it. 

Dr. Adam Kuhn died intestate. Letters of administration on his estate 
were granted July 28, 1817, to Hartman Kuhn. Bonds were given for $360,- 
000. (Philadelphia Administrations, Liber M, folio 35.) 

Children of Adam Kuhn and Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe : -^ 

1. HARTMAN KUHN. born February 4, 1784; died November 6, i860; married 

December 15, 1818, Ellen Lyle. 

2. Charles Kuhn, born April 12, 1785: died September 22, 1842; married July 28. 

1808, Elizabeth Hester Yard, born January 24, 1788; died March 12, 1870; 
daughter of Benjamin Yard and Elizabeth Kortright.22 

Children: 

i. Cornelius Kuhn, born April 30. i8og; died August 15, 1816. 
ii. Elizabeth Kuhn, born March 3, 181 1; baptized November 21, 
1817, by Bishop White; died January 30, 1824. 



2^ The Kuhn family Bible, in possession of C. Hartman Kuhn, of Philadelphia, has supplied the data 
here given and much that follows. 

^2 The Kuhn family Bible also gives the following record : 

Elizabeth Kortright, born in St. Croi.x, Oct. 29th, 1765, married to Benjamin Yard, in St. Croix, on 
Jany. 8th, 1784. Benjamin Yard loom in Trenton, died August 21st, 1787. Their children : Cornelius 
Kortright Yard, born Nov. 13th, 1784. Samuel Yard, born May 10, 1786. Elizabeth Hester Yard, b. Jany. 
24, 1788; Samuel Yard, died May 16, 1786; Benjamin Yard his father, died Aug. 21, 1787; Cornelius 
Kortright Yard, died Sept. 18, 1803; Elizabeth Yard, widow of Benjamin Yard, married Jany. 12, 1791, in 
Phila., to James Yard, born in Princeton on June 17, 1760. Elizabeth Yard died April 12, 1824. James Yard 
died February 4, 1835. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 129 



iii. Hartman Kuhn, born December 6, 1812; baptized November 
21, 1817, by Bishop White; died May 13, 1892; married Feb- 
ruary 3, 1842, Mary Kuhn, daughter of Hartman Kuhn 
and Ellen Lyle. 

iv. Charles Kuhn, born September 16, 1814: baptized November 
21, 1817, by Bishop White; died August 7, 1854; un- 
married. 
V. Emily Kuhn, born March 10, 1816; baptized November 21, 
1817, by Bishop White; died October 22, 1848; married 
May 5, 1846, Samuel T. Harrison. 

vi. William Kuhn, born December 27, 1817: died August 21, 1837. 

vii. Edward Kuhn, born October 21, 1819; died December 25, 1819. 
viii. Edward Kuhn, born November 28, 1820; died August 22, 1824. 

3. William Kuhn, born June 15, 1789; died June 28, 1789. 



III. 

Hartman Kuhn, son of Adam and Elizabeth (Hartman) Kuhn, born 
between three and four a.m., February 4, 1784; died November 6, i860; mar- 
ried by Bishop White, December 15, 1818, Ellen Lyle, born October 21, 1797; 
died February 8, 1852 ; daug^hter of James and Ann (Hamilton) Lyle. 

Hartman Kuhn took his degree of B.A. at the LIniversity of Pennsylvania, 
in 1800. He was one of the original members of the State Fencibles, organized 
May 26, 1813; also a member of the committee appointed in 1813, to prepare a 
plan for the defence of the harbor and ports of the river Delaware ; was a mem- 
ber of the American Philosophical Society, and a trustee of the University of 
Pennsylvania from 1836 until his death. 

The will of Hartman Kuhn, of Philadelphia, dated November 3, 1860, and 
proved November 12, i860, bequeathed to George Wood, who had lived 
in his household ''for many years past," the sum of five hundred dollars, and 
released him from the payment of a bond of six hundred and thirty dollars, 
dated January i, 1836. 

The residue of the estate was to be equally divided among his chil- 
dren, viz. : Mary, wife of his nephew Hartman Kuhn, Jr. ; Charles Kuhn ; Eliza- 
beth, wife of George C. Morris; Ellen, wife of Manlius G. Evans; Hartman 
Kuhn, third of the name ; James Hamilton Kuhn and Sophia Kuhn. His sons, 
Charles, Hartman and James Hamilton Kuhn, were appointed executors. The 
will was witnessed by William Pepper and Adolphus Peries. (Philadelphia 
Wills, Liber 44, folio 402.) 

Children of Hartman Kuhn and Ellen Lyle : ^^ 

I. Mary Kuhn, born October 5. 1819; died November 6, 1886; married February 3, 
1842, Hartman Kuhn. 



2' The Bible record is as follows : 

Mary, born Tuesday 5 October 1819 at nine o'clock in the eveninsr; baptized in St. Peter's 

Church on Wednesday 17th Oct. 1821 by the Right Rev. Bishop White. 
Charles, born Friday 2d Nov. 1821, at 4 o'clock in the morning; Baptized in St. Peter's Church 
on Friday 7 June 1822 by Bishop White. 



I30 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



2. Charles Kuhn, born November 2, 1821; died October 28, 1899, at No. 50 Fau- 

bourg St. Honore, Paris; married April 13, 1854, Louisa Catherine 
Adams, who died July, 1870; daughter of Charles Francis Adams. One 
child, a daughter, born and died October 11, 1857. 

3. Ellen Kuhn, born August 13, 1823; died April 11, 1894; married April 14, 1846, 

Manlius Glendour Evans. 

4. Elizabeth Kuhn, born July 17, 1826; died April 2, 1830. 

5. Rosalie Kuhn, born April 23, 1829; died December 20, 1841. 

6. Hartman Kuhn, born February 22, 1831; died in Rome, January 21, 1870, in con- 

sequence of a fall from his horse, while leaping; married April 6, 1865, 
Grace Morris Cary, born in Boston, June 16, 1840; daughter of William 
F. and Nancy (Cushing) Cary of New York. 

Child: 
i. Hamilton Kuhn, born in Philadelphia, January 8, 1866; baptized 
in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, April 23, 1866, by Rev. 
William Vandyne; died January 26, 1902; unmarried. 

7. ELIZABETH KUHN, born April 24, 1833; died October 13, 1890; married July 

15, 1856, George Calvert Morris. 

8. Sophia Kuhn, born June 5, 1835: died at Bar Harbor, Maine, October 7, 1885. 

9. James Hamilton Kuhn, born December 2, 1838; died June 30, 1862, in action in 

the battle of White Oak Swamp, at Newmarket Cross Roads, near Rich- 
mond, Virginia. His body was not recovered. Unmarried. 

The will of Ellen Kuhn, wife of Hartman Kuhn. of Philadelphia, dated 
July 20, 1841, proved February 12, 1852, recites an indenture made March 23, 
1819, whereby Hartman Kuhn, of Philadelphia, Gentleman, and Ellen his wife, 
late Ellen Lyle, did grant unto Joseph Reed Ingersoll and William Rawle, 
Junior, of the same city, Gentlemen, in trust, the property and estates of which 
the said Ellen was possessed at the time of her marriage with the said Hart- 
man Kuhn; also that by the will of Margaret Hamilton, late of Philadelphia. 
Gentlewoman, dated March 31, 1827, Mary Beckett and Ellen Kuhn were made 
the residuary legatees of their said aunt. 

To her husband, Hartman Kuhn, were bequeathed the above estates and 
interests ; to Sarah Dixon one thousand dollars, if living with the testator at 
time of her decease, otherwise, five hundred dollars. In case the death of her 
husband should take place before her own, the above bequests were to be for 
the use of her children. Witnessed by S. Nichols and A. Peries. 

An additional will, dated November 13. 1851, devised to her husband, 
Hartman Kuhn, the estate received by the will of her aunt, Mary Hamilton, 



Ellen, born Wednesday 13 Augrust 1823 at 10 minutes past 8 o'clock in the morning; Baptized in 
St. Peter's Cliiirch on Wednesday 27th of October by the Rev. Wm. H. Delancey. 

Elizabeth, born on Monday 17th July 1826 at ten minutes before 9 o'clock in the morning; 
Baptized in St. Peter's Church on Wednesday 30th May 1827 by the Rev. William H. 
DeLancey. 

Rosalie, born Thursday 23 April 1829 at a quarter past 5 o'clock in the morning. 

Hartman, born on Tuesday 22d February 1831 at 8 o'clock in the evening. 

Elizabeth, born on Wednesday 24 April 1833 at 5 minutes before 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 

Sophia, born on Friday 5th June 1835 at 35 minutes past 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 

James Hamilton, born on Sunday 2 December 1838 at ten minutes past 5 o'clock in the morning. 



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late of Philadelphia, singlewoman (dated March 11, 1844), and appointed her 
husband executor of this will, which was not to interfere with the will made July 
20, 1841. Witnessed by William Rawle, Malcolm Maccuen. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber 29, folio 103.) 

SUPPLEMENTAL KUHN RECORD. 

Mary Kuhn, daughter of Hartman and Ellen Kuhn, born October 5, 1819; baptized 
in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 17, 1821, by Bishop White; died 
Saturday morning, November 6, 1886; married February 3, 1842, Hartman Kuhn. born 
December 6, 1812; died May 13, 1892; son of Charles and Elizabeth Hester (Yard) Kuhn. 

Children of Hartman Kuhn and Mary Kuhn: 

1. William Kuhn, born November iS, 1842; married ; no issue. 

2. Frederick Kuhn, born December 16, 1843; died December 22, 1844. 

3. Mary Hamilton Kuhn, born May 9, 1845; died February 17, 1886; married June 

5. 1876, Joseph Conkling Harris, born February 25, 1849; died June 25, 
1898; son of Thomas C. and Isabel Aitken (Barney) Harris. 

Children: 

i. James Flamilton Harris, born December 6, 1876; married 
April 15, 1901, Ethel Crothers Heberton. 

Child: 
I. Hamilton Kuhn Harris, born December 10, 1901. 

ii. f Mary Hamilton Harris, born November 10, 1878. 
iii. 1 Isabel Barney Harris, born November 10, 1878; married 
January 8, 1901, Charles Louis Boone, born October 22, 
1873; son of Daniel Alexius Boone. 

Children: 

1. Mary Hamilton Kuhn Boone, born July 27, 1903. 

2. Daniel Carroll Boone, born June 30, 1904. 

iv. Joseph Ridgely Harris, born July 13, 1880; died December 

25, 1904. 
V Cornelius Hartman Kuhn Harris, born September 7, 1882. 

4. Ellen Kuhn, born May 31, 1848; died July 7, 1852. 

5. Charles Kuhn, born February 15, 1847; died August 26, 1889; married January 

II, 1877, Mary Denckla Mason. 

Child: 
i. Mary Hamilton Kuhn, married at Twickenham, near London, 
April 29, 1903, Rowland Huntly Gordon, of London, Eng- 
land. 

6. Cornelius Hartman Kuhn, born July 4, 1854. 

7. Elizabeth Ella Kuhn, born November 4, 1857; died May 22, 1858. 

Ellen Kuhn, daughter of Hartman and Ellen (Lyle) Kuhn, born Wednesday, Au- 
gust 13, 1823, at 8.10 a.m.; baptized in St. Peter's Church. Philadelphia, Wednesday, October 
27, 1824, by the Rev. William H. Delancey; died April 11, 1894; married April 14, 1846, 
Manlius Glendour Evans, born September 2, 1821; died June 2, 1879; son of Cadwalader and 
Harriet V. Evans. 



132 THE ANCESTRY OF 



Children of Manilas Glendour Evans and Ellen Kuhn : 

1. Cadwalader Evans, born January 22, 1847; died January 20, 1880; married May 

28, 1872, Lena Burr Corse, born October 12, 1847; daughter of Israel 
and Catherine (Ketchum) Corse. 

Children: 

i. Lena Cadwalader Evans, born June 22, 1873. 
ii. Edith Corse Evans, born September 21, 1875. 

2. Ellen Lyle Evans, born June 16, 1848; died March 5, 1850. 

3. Ellen Lvle Evans, born November 21, 1851; married June 11, 1872, Captain Al- 

fred Thayer Mahan, born at West Point, New York. September 27, 1840; 
son of Dennis Hart and Mary Helena (Okill) Mahan. 

Children: 

i. Helen Evans Mahan, born August 6, 1873. 
ii. Ellen Kuhn Mahan, born July 10, 1877. 
iii. Lyle Evans Mahan, born February 12, 1881 ; married October 

22, 1904, Madeline Johnson, daughter of Davis and Mary 

Woolsey (Freeman) Johnson. 

4. Rosalie Evans, born August 25, 1854; married September 16, 1897, Frank Leon- 

ard Brown, M.D. 

5. Julia Evans, born June 7, 1856; died October 2, 1858. 

6. Hartman Kuhn Evans, born January 8. i860; married September 26, 1899, Mabel 

Estelle (nee Curtis). 

Emily Kuhn, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Hester Kuhn, born March 10, 
1816; died October 22, 1848; married May 5, 1846, Samuel Thompson Harrison, born June 
13. 1815 ; died November 5, 1856; son of Hall and Elizabeth (Gait) Harrison. 

Children of Samuel Thompson Harrison and Emily Kuhn: 
I. Charles Kuhn Harrison, born February 26, 1847; married December 30, 1868, 
Louisa Tripletl Haxall. 

Children: 
i. Anne Triplett Harrison, born October 10, 1869; married April 

12, 1898, George S. Jackson, born June 30, 1865. 
ii. William Gilpin Harrison, born September 6, 1871; died June 

14, 1902. 
iii. Emily Kuhn Harrison, born September 30, 1872; married No- 
N vember 17, 1897, Stuart S. Symington, born February 6, 

1871. 

Children: 

I. Louise Symington, born September 11, 1898. 
2 William Stuart Symington, born June 26, 1901. 
3. Francis Fife Symington, born December 25, 1903. 

iv. Charles Kuhn Harrison, born August 13, 1874. 

V. Boiling Haxall Harrison, born January 29, 1876. 

vi. Louisa Haxall Harrison, born March 31, 1878; married April 
29, 1903, George W. Riley, born November 21, 1871. 

vii. Samuel Thompson Harrison, born April 17, 1880; died Decem- 
ber 23, 1894. 
viii. Hall Harrison,, born October 29, 1881. 



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133 



ix. Hartnian Kuhn Harrison, born August 31, 1883. 
X. Evelyn Arnold Harrison, born April 13, 1885. 
xi. John Triplet! Harrison, born March 20, 1887. 
xii. Philip Haxall Harrison, born March 19, 1889. 

2. Emily Kuhn Harrison, born October 17, 1848; died June 26, 1870; married July 
8, 1869, S. H. Lyon. No issue. 

(Record from Kuhn Bible in possession of C. Hartman Kuhn.) 



n. Elizabeth Kuiin, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



LE CANDELE. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 



LEMMENS. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 




134 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



LEVY. 
Generation VIII. 

Moses Levy/ son of Isaac Levy, was born in Spain about 1665; died in 
New York, June 14, 1728. When quite a young man he went to London, where, 
as a merchant, he was the owner of many vessels engaged in trade with the 
north of Africa. About the year 1705, he came to New York, where he 
continued the shipping business. He was an active member of the Congre- 
gation of Sheareth Israel, of which he was for several years, and at the time of 
his death, Parnas (President). He was buried in the cemetery of the congre- 
gation, on New Bowery, where his tombstone is still standing. The inscription, 
in Hebrew, Spanish and English, concludes with the following: 

O Frail Adam 

What the Earth .Surely Produces 
Death by His Power Reduces. 
Thy Heavenly Part Man Being Fled, 
Alas, The Other Parts Are Dead. 
Mr. Moses Levy depar'^ this Life June the 14*^'* 1728. 



Children of Moses Levy : 

1. Benjamin Levy, born in London, 1692. 

2. BILHAH ABIGAIL LEVY, born in London about 1700; married 1719, Jacob 

Franks. 

3. Moses Levy, born in London, 1704. 

4. Rachel Levy, born in New York, 1710; died May 12, 1797; married, 1741, Isaac 

Mendez Seixas. 



■I 

VII. BiLHAH Abigail Levy, married Jacob Franks. t 

VI. David Franks, married Margaret Evans. 
V. Abigail Franks, married Andrew Hamilton. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



> "The Levy and Seixas Families." By N. Taylor Phillips, LL.B., of New York. (Publications of the 
American Jewish Historical Society, No. 4, p. 189). Mr. Phillips owns a portrait of Moses Levy. 



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ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 135 



LILLINGSTON. 

" George Lillingston, son of John Lillingston, of Kingsey, Co. Bucks, sacerd., 
Oriel College, matriculated 14 April, 1641, aged 16." 

"John Lillingston, son of the above George, pleb., of Jesus College, matriculated 
22 November, 1672, aged 16; BA. 1676; Vicar of Ilmer, Bucks, 1677." — Alumni Oxonionsis, 
1500-1714. 

Generation IX. 

Rev. John Lillingston, believed to be the one last above mentioned, had 
arrived in Talbot County, Maryland, in 1680, and as his name is not in the list 
of early immigrants it may be presumed that he had not arrived prior to this 
date. 

On October 18, 1680, Mary Ward, widow and executrix of Matthew 
Ward, of Talbot County, and daughter of Richard Tilghman, executed a deed 
of trust to John Lillingston of Talbot County, clerk, and William Tilghman, of 
the same, gentleman, " with the intent to provide for the settlement of the 
lands and inheritances left by her late husband, Matthew Ward "... for the 
use of her son, Matthew Tilghman Ward. (Talbot County Land Records, Liber 
GG, No. 3, folio 369.) This settlement was doubtless made in consequence of her 
intended marriage to John Lillingston, and was probably but a short time 
before that event. A tract called " Berks," or " Barks," was surveyed August 
4, 1682, for John Lillingston, on the south side of Chester River, west of 
Double Creek ; and on March 20, 1682/3, John Lillingston and Mary his wife 
conveyed the same to Thomas Wyatt. (Liber iv., No. 4, folio 183.) 

Rev. John Lillingston married second, about 1691, Mary Carpender, 
daughter of Simon ^ and Elizabeth Carpender, who died January 8, 1701. He 



1 " Symon Carpenter transported himself and Elizabeth Carpenter and thirty-nine others to the Province 
to inhabit and took up forty-one rights," of fifty acres each. This warrant for 2050 acres was dated 20 July 
1665. (Liber H, folio 501, Land Records, Land Office, Annapolis.) 

Simon Carpender was one of the Commissioners of Talbot County, Maryland, 1665 to 1669. (Liber i., 
Talbot Deeds and Court Records.) 

The will of Simon Carpender of Chester River, dated 22 March 1669, names wife executri.x ; " four 
dear children," the " boy to have his part at twenty-one, the girls at marriage " ; " son William " ; " niece 
Elizabeth Miers" ; and appoints Mr. Henry Coursey and Mr. William Coursey, advisors. Will proved. 23 
November 1670. (Annapolis Wills, Liber i., folio 148.) 

On 2 February, 1670, William Coursey and Thomas Hynson, Gentlemen, were securities for Elizabeth 
Carpender, as Administratrix of Simon Carpender. (Liber i., folio 28, Talbot County Bonds.) 

Mrs. Elizabeth Carpender married, after 1670, Col. Henry Coursey, and in her will, dated 14 December 
1704, proved 13 January 1708, names all the children of John Lillingston. except George, as legatees. 
(Annapolis Wills, Liber T. B., folio 296). Henry Coursey in his will dated June 17, 1695, mentions Jane and 
Carpender Lillingston as grandchildren. 

Jane Coursey, daughter of Col. Henry and the above named Mrs. Elizabeth (Carpender) Coursey, in 
her will, dated 23 December 169S, proved 5 February 1696, calls John Lillingston " brother-in-law," and his 
wife Mary "sister." (Annapolis Wills, Liber K, folio 229.) 

In the administration bond, estate of William Carpender, late of Talbot, deceased, dated 19 November 
1686, Col. Henry Coursey is security for Ann and Mar>' Carpender, administrators. (Talbot County Bonds. 
Liber i., folio 107.) This document gives the names of three of Simon Carpender's children. 



136 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

was the first rector of St. Paul's Parish, Queen Anne County, holding the 
office from 1694 until his death, April 17, 1709. 

The Rev. John Talbot, " first Bishop in North America," in a letter writ- 
ten in 1705, thus refers to Mr. Lillingston : 

Mr. John Lillingston designs, it seems, to go for England next year; he seems to 
be the fittest person that America affords for the ofil'ice of Suffragan, and several persons, 
both of the Laity and Clergy, have wished he were the man: and if my Lord of London 
thought fit to authorize him, several of the Clergy both of this Province and of Maryland 
have said they would pay their tenths unto him, as my Lord of London's Viceregent, 
whereby the Bishop of America might have as honorable provision as some in Europe. 
{I'ciuisylvania Magazine, vol. iii., page 39.) 

Colonel Harrison, in his mantiscript history of " The Church in Talbot 
County," states that " three clergymen were in 1693 exercising their vocation 
in three sections of Talbot County, each of which became a parish : Mr. Lilling- 
ston in the north (in that section afterwards Queen Anne County),- Mr. Clay- 
land in the west, and Mr. Leach in the south." He adds : " That Mr. 
Lillingston was here in 1680, is shown by the humble petition of John Lilling- 
ston to the Worshipful Commissioners of Talbot County in 1680, in which he 
sets forth that at the request of Alice widow and relict of John Bradburne he 
had preached a sermon at the funeral of said Bradburne and had not received 
compensation therefor." 

Mr. Lillingston's last will and testament, dated 13th of April, 1709, and 
proved in Queen Anne County, Maryland, May 23, 1709, gives to his daughter 
Mary, "Porter's Lodge"; to his daughter Frances, "Lillingston's Castle and 
Addition " ; to son George's daughter Mary, " should she live to be twenty- 
one," one portion of " Ward's Park,"' ^ purchased of Matthew Tilghman Ward. 
He names also a son Carpender and daughter Jane. Executors, Mr. Mat- 
thew Tilghman Ward, Mr. John Lambert and Dr. Edward Chetham. Wit- 
nesses, E. Wright, Edward Gray and Margaret Bishop. 



2 Mr. Lillingston baptized James Frisby at the house " lately belonging to Mr. Simon Carpender," at 
Sassafras River, in Cecil County, Maryland, i8 April 1686. (Hanson's " Old Kent," p. 302.) 

The Registers of Cecil County, St. Stephen's, North Sassafras Parish, contain only the following 
mention of Lillingston : 

Francis Frisby son of James Esq. and Mary his wife, baptized 7 July 1687, by Mr. Lillingston. 

Janie Hynson daughter of Jn" & Mary bap. i April 1696, by Mr. Lillingston. 

Jn" son of Mr. Jn" Hynson & Mary bap. i April 1697, by Mr. Lillingston. 

The Register of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Anne Arundel County, contains the following : 

Jane, daughter of Rev. John Lillingston, married Thomas, son of William Hammond, of Anne 
Arundel, 6 Jan. 1714. 

' The following, from the Talbot County, Maryland, Rent Rolls (Liber 2, folio 378), gives the 1000 
acres " Park " mentioned in Rev. John Lillingston's will, as purchased from Matthew Tilghman Ward : 

" 1000 acres — Park — surveyed 24 July 1672, for Matthew Ward, on south side of Chester River near 
head of Double Creek, running up Creek and Branch, poss"* by Mr. Lillingston." 

Carpender Lillingston, executor of the will " of Joseph Lambert, who was executor of the will of John 
Lillingston, of Queen Anne County, Clark, deceased," by indenture of 21 September 1720, conveyed to 
William Till, Esq., of Sussex County on Delaware, " who married Mary, only daughter and heir of George 
Lillingston, late of Sussex County on Delaware, deceased, who was son and heir at law of the aforementioned 
John Lillingston, deceased," a moiety of a tract of land called " Parks," which under the will of said John 
Lillingston descended " to his grandchild Mary, daughter of George Lillingston, should she attain the age of 
maturity." (Queen Anne County Land Records, Liber I. K., No. B., folio 29.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 137 



Child of Rev. John Lillingston and Mary (Tilghman) Ward: 

1. GEORGE LILLINGSTON, born about 1681; died July 12, 1705; married Eliza- 

beth Watson. 

Children of Rev. John Lillingston and Mary Carpender : 

2. Carpender Lillingston, born about 1691; died without issue. By indenture 

dated November 9, 1720, " Carpender Lillingston of Queen Anne 
County, Gent," conveyed a moiety of 400 acres in Cecil County, called 
" Anna Catharine's Neck," laid out and patented for William Carpender 
deceased, July 20, 1658, to George Simcoe, of Cecil County; said prem- 
ises " to be acquitted and discharged for the dower of Susannah the 
wife of Carpender Lillingston." 

3. Jane Lillingston. born October 29, 1694; married January 6, 1714, Thomas, son 

of William Hammond, of Anne Arundel County. 

4. Mary Lillingston, born October 6, 1697; probably unmarried. 

5. Frances Lillingston, born October 9, 1699; married ; issue. 



VIII. 

George Lillingston, son of John and Mary, born about 1681 ; married 
Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Luke Watson, of Sussex County, on Delaware. 
He died intestate, July 12, 1705, and administration on his estate was granted 
November 26, 1705, in Sussex County, to his widow, Elizabeth Lillingston. 
(Sussex County Records, Liber O, folio 9.) 



November 27 1705. 

An Inventory of the Estate of Mr. George Lillingston, deceased, Appraised by us 
whose names are under written ye day and year above said. 

To one Negro Garvoll 

To Cows and Calves 

To twenty yearlings 

To four two year old horses 

To his wearing Aparell Linen and Wollen, 

Hats and Wigs shoes and stockings 
To 2 Razors 

To one Saddle & bridle well worn 
To one pair of old boots 
To one Comb Case & 2 Combs 
To two horses 
To one gold ring 

To one Bible and one book called the Whole Duty of Man 
To six silver spoons 



30. 


10. 





30. 


10. 





20. 


10. 





8. 


10. 





15- 


10. 







4- 





I. 


0. 







5- 







2. 





12. 


0. 







15- 







10. 





6. 


0. 






123. 16. o 



As witness our hands 



Thomas ffisiier 
Cornelius Wiltbank. 



138 THE ANCESTRY OF 

More added to above Inventory 

To one bond payable by Mr. John Lillingston of Talbot County in Maryland for three 

hundred pounds Sterling money of England payable in the year 1709. 

To one Bond payable by Luke Watson of Sussex County gentleman for four hundred 

pounds Current money of Pensilvania to be paid in the year 1709. 

To one tun of Tobacco In the hands of the Ex. of Mr. John De Baillheke in London. 

To one tun of Tobacco shipt on bord Mr. Lands ship Anno 1704. 

To legacy left Mr. George Lillingston by Mr. Marklin of Talbot County deceased to be 

paid by his Executors sum of fifour thousand pounds of Tobacoky. 

Thomas ffisher 
Registered the 4 April 1720 Cornelius Wiltbank 

Philip Russell, Dep. Reg. 

WILL OF ELIZABETH LILLINGSTON, WIDOW OF GEORGE 
LILLINGSTON, DECEASED. 

In the Name of God Amen This first Day of December Anno Domi Seventeen 
hundred & five I Elizabeth Lillingston of the County of Sussex being one of ye Lower 
Counties on Delaware Bay, widow Being sick and weak in Body but of sound and perfect 
Memory Thanks be to Almighty God Doe make this my Last Will & Testament in man- 
ner & form following, first I commit my Soul to Almighty God who gave it hoping to 
obtain full pardon & forgiveness of all my sins Through the meritts of our blessed Lord 
Jesus Christ our Saviour and Redeemer and my body to be Decently Buried at the Dis- 
cretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned in assured hope of The Resurrection at the 
last Day, and my Worldly Estate as followeth, 

Secondly I give and bequeath unto my Dear and Tender mother Mary Watson all 
my Gold Rings also my Trunk and my wearing apparel 

Thirdly I give & bequeath unto my Dear and Tender Child Mary Lillingston three hun- 
dred Pounds Lawful Currant money of this Government To her and her heirs of her 
body to be paid her by my Executor hereafter mentioned if she ye said Mary Lives to the 
age of eighteen, or Day of Marriage but in case my said child should Die without Issue 
Lawfully begott of her body then ye sd Three hundred Pounds to Return unto my Ex- 
ecutor his Heirs & Assigns forever further it is my Will & Desire that my Dear and 
Honoured father Luke Watson shall have the full and whole care and Tuition of my sd 
Child Till she shall come to the age above mentioned or married. 

ffourthly I doe hereby Constitute and Appint my ever Honoured ffather, Luke Watson 
my whole & sole Executor and after my just debts and funeral charges and all the above 
Legacies are fully paid then I give and bequeath unto my Dear father my Executor all 
the Residue and Remainder of my Worldly Estate whatsoever. In witness whereof I have 
hereunto sett my hand and fixed my Seal ye Day and Year within Written. 

Elizabeth Lillingston. [seal] 
Witnesses, John Hill, John Watson and Samuel Watson. 

This will was proved at Lewes, Delaware, December 8, 1705. (Sussex 
County Wills, Book Q, folios 16-18.) 

VII. 

Mary Lillingston, only child of George and Elizabeth Lillingston, of 
Sussex County, was married January 7, 1 720/1, to William Till. (Records of 
Christ Church, Philadelphia.) 

Carpender Lillingston, executor of the will of Joseph Lambert, who was 
executor of the will of John Lillingston, clerk, of Queen Anne County, Mary- 
land, deceased, by indenture of September 21, 1720, conveyed to William 



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139 



Till, Esquire, of Sussex County, on Delaware, " who married Mary, only daugh- 
ter and heir of George Lillingston, late of Sussex County, on Delaware, de- 
ceased, who was son and heir at law of the aforementioned John Lillingston, 
deceased," a moiety of a tract of land called " Parks," which under the will of 
said John Lillingston descended " to his grandchild Mary, daughter of George 
Lillingston, should she attain the age of maturity." (Recorded in Queen Anne 
County.) 



VI. Mary Till, married Andrew Hamilton. 

V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 

II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



LUNDEN. 



Generation XL 



See Stier Record. 




I40 THE ANCESTRY OF 



LYLE. 

Generation VI. 

Hugh Lyle, of Coleraine, Ireland/ captain of a regiment of dragoons, mar- 
ried Eleanor Bankhead, of Kilotin, who was born about 1687, died March 18, 
1766. His will was made in 1765. 

Children of Hugh Lyle and Eleanor Bankhead : 

1. Elizabeth Lyle, married Hugh Carmichael, lawyer, of Dublin. 

2. Martha Lyle, married Bryan, of Coleraine. 

3. HUGH LYLE, born February 20, 1717; died May 12, 1778; married July 6, 1749, 

Eleanor Hyde. 



V. 

Hugh Lyle, son of Hugh and Eleanor, born February 20, 1717; died May 
12, 1778; married July 6, 1749, Eleanor Hyde, born October 10, 1725; died 
April 22, 1797; daughter of Samuel Hyde and Mary Aderne, of Belfast. 

Children of Hugh Lyle and Eleanor Hyde : 

1. Ellen Lyle, born January 3, 1756; died May 3, 1813; married John Markland, 

of Foxholer, Lancashire, whose name was afterwards changed to Ent- 
wistle. 

2. Hugh Lyle, of Jackson Hall, Londonderry, born December 30, 1756; died March 

20, 1812; married in 1776, his cousin Sarah Greg, of Belfast, born Octo- 
ber 8, 1764; died June 2, 1836; daughter of Thomas Greg, merchant. 

Children: 

i. Hugh Lyle, born 1791: died October 18, 1847; married Harriet 

Cromie, of Cromore, Antrim. - 
ii. Thomas Lyle, died unmarried, 
iii. Samuel Lyle, died unmarried, 
iv. Ellen Lyle. died without issue; married December 19, 1815, 

Major Martin, of Ardrossan. 
V. Elizabeth Lyle, married November 22, 1815, Hugh Ovens; left 

four sons, Hugh, Edward, Thomas and William, 
vi. Mary Lyle, married Colonel Graydon, R.E.; left four children. 

George, William, John and Sarah, 
vii. Sarah Lyle, married Ross T Smyth; had si.K children, two 

sons, John and Hugh. 



1 Tn the graveyard at Coleraine, Ireland, is a monument bearing the inscription, — " Here leth the body 
of Anne Lyle who departed this life December A. D. 27 (?) 1737, aged — years, and David her son 
survived her eleven months." Probably sister-in-law of Captain Hugh Lyle. 

* Children of Hugh Lyle and Harriet Cromie were Hugh, Rev. John, James A., Thomas, George, 
Henry, Rev. Edward, Godfrey Octavius, Annie Ould, Sarah Price, Harriet Chichester, Ellen Scott and 
Fanny Mulholland, afterward Lady Dunleath. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 141 



3. Samuel Lyle, of the Oaks, County Derry, Ireland, born April 13, 1761; died De- 

cember 25, 181 5; married August 20, 1787, Esther Acheson, born Octo- 
ber 8, 1764; died February 7, 1844; daughter of John Acheson. 

Children : 
i. Mary Lyle, born January 7, 1789; died July 4, 1789. 
ii. Ellen Lyle, born January 29, 1790; died October 5, 1854, un- 
married, 
iii. Hugh Lyle, of Cairnagariff, born January 31, 1794: died Octo- 
ber 25, 1845; married Catharine Bateson, and had son,, 
Hugh Chetham Lyle. 
iv. Acheson Lyle, of the Oaks, born March 13, 1795; died April 22, 
1870; married, April 5, 1825, Eleanor Warre; died April, 
1870.3 
V. Sarah Lyle, born April 29, 1796; married Thomas Batt. 
vi. James Lyle, born February 14, 1798; died 1817 in Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania, unmarried, 
vii. Samuel Lyle, born February 18, 1801 ; died August 18, 1868; 

married Margaret Stevenson; died April, 1875. 
viii. Mary Lyle, born May 14, 1804; died March 26. 1883; married 
Henry Cole Sandys. 

4. Sarah Lyle, born July 15, 1763; died October 7, 1834; married October 26, 1786, 

James Acheson, of the Oaks, Derry; died October 27, 1830. No issue. 

5. JAMES LYLE, born October 25, 1765; died August 10, 1826; married October 

17. 1792, Ann Hamilton. 

IV. 

James Lyle, son of Hugh and Eleanor Lyle, born in Ireland, October 25, 
1765; died August 10, 1826;* married October 17, 1792, Ann Hamilton, born 
December 16, 1769; died August 12, 1798; ^ daughter of Andrew Hamilton and 
Abigail Franks. 

James Lyle on coming to this country settled in Philadelphia, where, under 
the firm name of Lyle & Newman, he carried on business with John Beauclerc 
Newman, and amassed a considerable fortune. He lived for a number of years 
with the Hamiltons, at the Woodlands, and was, with his two daughters, a 
member of the family there in 181 7. 



' Children of Acheson Lyle and Eleanor Warre : 

1. James Acheson Lyle, born February 4, 1827; married 1851, Ida Elizabeth Ruttledge, and 

had: Margaret, Major Acheson, Felton Hervey, Eleanor Ida and Francis Acheson. 

2. Georgina A. Lyle married Ponsonby Cox, R. E. ; no issue. 

3. Eleanor Augusta K. A. Lyle, married (i) Capt. FeUon Hervey, died without issue; 

(2) Samuel G. Rathbone. 

4. Esther Emily A. Lyle, married WilHam Rathbone, M. P., no issue. 

5. Florence A. Lyle, married Rev. G. Galbraith. 

*" Died at Long Branch on the lo^h inst., James Lyle, Esq., of this city, aged 61 years. His friends 
and those of the family are particularly invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 95 South Fourth 
Street, this afternoon at 5 o'clock."— 77;« UniUd States Gazette, Saturday, August 12th, 1826. 

5" Died yesterday morning, Mrs. Lisle, wife of Mr. James Lisle, merchant of this City."— 7%^ United 
States Gazette, August 13, 1798. 

Letters of administration were granted May 26, 1808, to James Lyle, on the estate of Ann Lyle, his 
late wife, deceased. The sureties were Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, gentleman, and Robert Shaw of 
Philadelphia, merchant. The amount of the bond was $20,000. (Philadelphia Administrations, Liber K, 
folio 312.) 



142 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

In the possession of the compiler is a certificate issued by the Pennsyl- 
vania Hospital to James Lyle, of Philadelphia, merchant, dated January 30, 
1821, acknowledging a contribution of fifty dollars and enrolling him as a mem- 
ber of the Corporation of Contributors. 

The will of James Lyle, of the city of Philadelphia, merchant, dated July 
24, 1826; proved August 15, 1826, appointed John B. Newman, Hartman Kuhn 
and Henry Beckett, executors, and devised his entire estate in trust, to be 
divided in two equal parts for the use of his two daughters, Mary Beckett and 
Ellen Lyle, and their issue. A provision was made for the advancement of 
money to Margaret and Mary Hamilton, should they at any time require the 
same from depreciation of their estates, etc. Will witnessed by Daniel C. Ellis 
and Charles Ingersoll. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 8, folio 618.) 

Children of James Lyle and Ann Hamilton : 

1. Mary Lyle, born January 22, 1796; died November 21, 1829; « married November 

12, 1818, Henry Beckett, born April 11, 1791; died September 11, 1871; 
son of Sir John Beckett and Mary Wilson. 

Children: 
i. Marianna Beckett, born April 27, 1820; died without issue, May 

ID, 1849; married July 10, 1839, Sir Thomas Whichcote, 

Baronet, 
ii. James Beckett, died young, 
iii. Hamilton Beckett, born October 15, 1829; married December 

14, 1854, Hon. Sophia Clarence Copley, daughter of Baron 

Lyndhurst. 

Children: 

1. Henry Lyndhurst Beckett, born April 8, 1857; died with- 

out issue, July 5, 1896. 

2. Constance Mary Beckett, born November 11, 1855; mar- 

ried February 11, 1880, Hon. Henry Campbell 
Bruce, now Lord Aberdare, and had issue. 

2. ELLEN LYLE, born October 21, 1797; died February 8, 1852; married Decem- 

ber IS, 1818, Hartman Kuhn. 



HL Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
IL Elizabeth Kxthn, married George Calvert Morris. 
L Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



6 The will of Mary BeckeU, wife of Henry Beckett, " now of the city of Philada.," dated November 29, 
1829 ; proved December 8, 1829 ; named her husband sole legatee, bequeathing to him certain estates 
conveyed, November 11, 1818, by herself, then Mary Lyle, in trust ; also her portion of the estate bequeathed 
by her aunt Margaret Hamilton to Mary Beckett and Ellen Kuhn. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 9, folio 393.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 



143 



MACQUEREEL. 

Generation XI. 
See Stier Record. 

MOENS. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 




144 THE ANCESTRY OF 



MOORE. 

Generation VIII. 

John Moore, born in Ens^land in 1659, died in his seventy-fourth year, in 
Philadelphia, and was buried in Christ churchyard, December 7, 1732;^ mar- 
ried Rebecca , who died in Charlestown Township, Chester County, 

Pennsylvania, 1749/50.- He is said to have been the son of Sir Francis Moore, 
and grandson of Sir John Moore, who was knij^hted by Charles II. in 1627. 
John Moore was liberally educated and adopted the profession of law. About 
1680 he settled in South Carolina, where he is supposed to have practiced his 
profession. His brother, James Moore, was Governor of South Carolina from 
1700 until 1703, and is said by Darke to have undertaken an unsuccessful expe- 
dition against Florida in 1719.^ Influenced, no doubt, by his kinsman, Colonel 
Robert Quarry, sometime governor of South Carolina, who in 1697 was ap- 
pointed Judge of the Vice Admiralty sitting at Philadelphia,'* John Moore 
removed to Pennsylvania, where he was made Advocate for the Crown in 
the Admiralty Court of that province in 1698.'' 

In the same year he is mentioned in the minutes of the Council of Penn- 
sylvania as " a Practitioner in Law in the Courts of this Province." He and 
David Lloyd were the most prominent lawyers of the time.'' Besides being 
Advocate in the Court of Vice Admiralty, John Moore was appointed Attorney 
General of Pennsylvania by the Crown in 1698,^ and by William Penn in 
1701;** was Deputy Judge of the Vice Admiralty, 1700 and 1704;^ Register 
General, 1700,^*^ and Collector of the Port of Philadelphia from 1704 until his 
death." 



1 " Saturday morning last died foHN MoORE, Esq., Collector of His Majesty's customs for this 
port, which place he enjoy'd above thirty years, and was esteem'd a good officer. He died in the 74th year 
of his age." {Pennsylvania Gazette, Dec. 7, 1732.) Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
Magazine , vol. v., p. 347. 

2 The will of Rebecca Moore, widow, of Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, dated 
November 23, 1749 ; proved T^miary 15. 1749/50, bequeathed to her granddaughters, Rebecca and Susanna, 
daughters of her eldest son John Moore, twenty-five pounds each ; to son Thomas, daughter Rebecca Evans 
and son Daniel, each one hundred pounds. Directed burial in St. Peter's churchyard, in the Great Valley, 
Chester County. Residue of estate to her son William, executor. Witnessed by Phineas Bond, Patrick 
Archbold and Alice Devonshire. (Chester County Wills, I.iber C, folio 196.) Rebecca Moore evidendy 
died at the home of her son William Moore of " Moore Hall." 

' " Life of Dr. Wm. Smith," by H. W. Smith. Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. v., p. 187. 

* Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 6. The will of Sarah Quary of Philadelphia, widow, 1716, mentions 
her cousins, Samuel Monkton and wife Susanna, John Moore of Philadelphia, and wife Rebecca, and 
Mary wife of Peter Evans. 

5 Ibid., p. 8. 

^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. v., p. 186. 

' Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 26. 

8 The original commission from Penn, in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
dated 3/31/1701, sets forth that " Reposing Special Trust and Confidence in the ffidelity Learning and 
Ability of my Trusty and Well beloved ffriend John Moore Gent, I have appointed and Ordained him the 
said John Moore, Attorney Generall for the Province of Pensilvania and Territories thereunto belonging." 

9 Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 6 ; '" ibjd., p. 73 ; n Ibid., p. 130. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 145 



His home was at Second Street and Garden Alley, later known as Coombes 
Alley ; he also owned a plantation in Moyamensing Township and a large tract 
of land in Chester County. He was among the first members of Christ Church, 
of which he was a vestryman for many years. ^- 

The will of John Moore, gentleman, of Philadelphia, dated November 16, 
1731, proved December 13, 1732, bequeathed to his wife, Rebecca Moore, his 
entire estate for life, and after her death to son John, the house and lot where 
the testator lived on Second Street, with thirty feet fronting Garden Alley ; 
also a plantation, house, marsh and cripple, where a certain Connor and other 
of the testator's servants then lived in the township of " Mihemenson " [Moya- 
mensing] , commonly called the pasture ; his said son John to pay certain sums 
of money bequeathed as follows : 

To son Thomas, two hundred pounds, he having expended much more on 
his education than he had on that of the others. To daughter Rebecca Evans, 
three hundred pounds in full for the share her husband might claim on her mar- 
riage or otherwise. To daughter Mary, wife of Peter Evans, the lot of garden 
ground in the garden alley, where the coach house and stables were built, with 
the ground rent of William Corker's house and one hundred pounds. 

To son William, fifty pounds, the testator having given to him the planta- 
tion on which he. the said William, was then living. To son Daniel, three hun- 
dred pounds. To son Richard, the houses in Water Street, mortgaged to the 
testator by Robert Ellis, and the wharf premises, etc. To son-in-law Peter 
Evans, in consideration of services done, one hundred pounds. 

Sixteen acres of pasture on " Parsion " [Passayunk] road to be sold; also 
his law books to be disposed of. His wife appointed executrix. Witnessed by 
James Bingham, Samuel Holt, Jr., and Charles Scott. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber E, folio 201.) 

Children of John and Rebecca Moore : 

I. John Moore, born in South Carolina. 1686; died in New York City. November i. 
1749:13 married Frances Lambert. Known in New York as Colonel 



" Pennsylvania Maf^azine, vol. v., p. 187 ; vol. ix., p. 523. 

" Ibid. vol. ii., p. 298. In this connection is the following : 

The will of Tohn Moore of New York, merchant, dated February 23, I748/9, Pro^ed November 9. 1749. 
bequeathed to wife Frances, all plate, linen and household goods and the use of all estate for life, for the 
maintenance of herself and children, except that portion in Philadelphia, and the estate m the Highlands. 
To son Tohn, house and ground in Philadelphia, next to the parsonage and house, with the garden and alley 
devised "to testator by his>ather after testator's mother's death ; son John to pay /850 charged by testator s 
father in his will. Also lot bought of the Corporation of New York on which the testator was living (after decease 
of wife) to son John, he paving sums to other sons, Lambert, Daniel and William. To daughter Rebecca 
Moore lot bought of Delanov and the dwelling house built thereon, in tenure of Mr. Isaac De 1 eystcr. 10 
son Thomas the lot bought of Thomas Roberts with the btiildings, in tenure of Mr. James Napier, he paying 
sums to his brothers Richard and Charles and sister Anne Moore. To son Richard, after wife s death, the 
water lot bought of the Corporation of New York, with house in which Mr. De Hart, the sa.lmaker was 
living. To sons Lambert, Daniel. William and Charles, lots. To daughter Susanna Moore, house and lot 
bought of Simon Pasco. To daughter Anne Moore, the garden spot between the new Dutch church and the 
house of Captain Jacob Waldron. To son Stephen the land in the Highlands, bought of Charles Congreve . 

also three negroes. . <• » . •„ t/^ 

Having given to eldest daughter Frances, wife of Samuel Bayard, a full proportion of estate, gave to 

10 



146 THE ANCESTRY OF 



John Moore; was a member of the Provincial Council, and one of the 
most prominent merchants of that city.^* His town house stood at the 
corner of Pearl and Moore Streets. ^^ He owned an estate of about 
twenty-eight hundred acres in the Highlands, including the present 
West Point, on which he built a large and costly mansion known in its 
day, and marked upon some of the early maps, as " Moore's Folly." 
General Washington made this house his headquarters in 1779, from 
July to November.!'' John and Frances Moore are said to have had 
eighteen children, among whom are the following: 

i. John Moore, merchant, died in Jamaica, West Indies, prior 

to February 23, 1748/9, probably unmarried. 
ii. Frances Moore, married Samuel Bayard. 

iii. Lambert Moore, born 1722; died June 19, 1784; Comptroller 
of the Customs from before 1766 until the end of the 
Revolution. His wife, a daughter of Edward Holland, 
Mayor of New York, and a member of the Provincial 
Council, died June 14, 1767, in the 37th year of her age.^^ 
iv. Daniel Moore. 
V. William Moore, 
vi. Rebecca Moore, 
vii. Thomas Moore, 
viii. Richard Moore, 
ix. Anne Moore. 
X. Charles Moore, 
xi. Susanna Moore. 

xii. Stephen Moore, who received the property on the Highlands 
by his father's will, and sold the West Point property to 
the United States Government in 1790.18 

2. Thomas Moore, clergyman, born in South Carolina, 1689; died at Little Britain, 

London, England. ^^ Peter Evans, writing to Captain Fells from 
Philadelphia, September 30. 1731, says: "I reced a Letter from my 
Bro"- in Law D'- Tho^ Moore of Aldersgate of July 20"^ ult." 20 

3. Daniel Moore, who became a distinguished lawyer. 

4. Frances Moore. 



her jC5°' ^""^ £5'^ to her first born son Samuel Bayard, when he shall be of age. Executors to sell house and 
lot in Philadelphia, near Wickeco, commonly called the Plantation or Pasture, which by his father's will was 
to come to the testator after his mother's decease. 

His wife and son John were appointed executors. Witnessed by Joseph Robinson, Isaac De Peyster 
and Mauritz De Hart. 

Codicil, devising to wife the portion bequeathed by will to son John who " it has pleased God to take 
unto himself." " I am informed by letter from my son's partner in Jamaica, West Indies, that in his last 
sickness he declared he would make his will and give the chiefest part of what he had to his three maiden 
sisters Rebecca, Susannah, and Anne," etc. Dated February 23, 1748/9. Witnessed by Robert Watts, Joseph 
Robinson and William Hamersley. (New York Wills, Liber 17, folio 44.) 

The house and lot left to his daughter Rebecca is now No. 23 Whitehall street. It was originally 
the house of Rev. Everardus Bogardus and his famous wife Aneke Jans. A tablet marks the spot. 
The " garden spot " left to his daughter Anne is on the south side of Liberty Street. The old " Sugar House," 
of Revolutionary fame, stood on this lot. (Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1895, p. 248.) 

1* Pennsylvania Magazirie, vol. ii., p. 298 ; ^^ Ibid. ; 1^ Ibid., vol. .w., p. 54 ; i" Ibid., vol. ii., p. 298 ; 
^8 Ibid., vol. XV., p. 55. 

i^Appleton's Cyclopedia. 

20 Original letter. Official Correspondence, Penn MSS., vol. ii., p. 175. Collection of the Historical 
Society of Pennsylvania. 



ij 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 147 



William Moore, "of Moore Hall," born in Philadelphia, May 6. 1699; died May 
30, 1783; married, 1722. Williamina, said to have been a daughter of the 
Earl of Wemyss;-! born 1705; died December 6, 1784. William Moore 
was educated in England and graduated at Oxford in 1719. In 1729 he 
received from his father a tract of two hundred and forty acres on Pick- 
ering Creek, near the Schuylkill, in Charlestown Township, Chester 
County, Pennsylvania, where he had been living for some time. Here 
William Moore erected a stone mansion overlooking the river, known 
then and since as " Moore Hall." He was a member of the Assembly 
for Chester County from 1733 to 1740: appointed a justice of the peace 
and judge of the County Courts in 1741, and for about forty years served 
as president judge of the same. During the Indian troubles, 1747/8, 
William Moore was colonel of a regiment of Chester County militia. 
He was at different times a member of the vestry of St. James' Church, 
on the Perkiomen, and of St. David's, Radnor. His daughter, Rebecca, 
married, July 3, 1758, the Rev. William Smith, D.D., first provost of 
the College of Philadelphia. 22 



21 In his will William Moore refers to the noble and honorable family from which his wife sprang. 

22 William and Williamina Moore are buried at St. David's Church, Radnor. The monument is a flat 
slab flush with the ground, and so placed, right before the church door, that those entering must, of necessity, 
cross it. According to the oft-told story, the mortal remains of Williamina Moore and her husband are under 
this stone, and it is said that she designated this particular spot for her sepulchre, in order that the feet of 
Christians, on their way to worship God might continually cross her grave., 

TO THE MEMORY 

OF 

WILLIAM MOORE ESQUIRE 

of Moore HALL in the Coiiniv of Chester 

and of WILLIAMINA his wife. 

HE departed this life on the joth day of May, 1783 

a^ed SIf years. 
SHE died on the 6th day of December, 1784 in the 80th 
year of her age. This venerable pair lived together in 
perfect love and unremitted Harmony and confidence for 
the long period of 6j years ; dispensing the best of Life 
loith an ardent and uninterrupted zeal, revered by their 
Children beloved by their friends, respected by the Com- 
munity in which they passed their lengthened days. Be- 
nevolence &• Urbanity beamed on all who entered their 
hospitable mansion ; they administered Comfort to the poor 
6* to the afflicted, encouraging tnodest merit. &• protecting 

humble Honesty, though covered with rags. 
HE presided in the Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions &• 
Orphans Courts, in this County for a great length of time, 
as a Judge &' as a Magistrate, he roas indefatigable in 
executing the Solemn charge of these important stations, 
acquiting himself with intelligence, impartiality &■ dignity. 
He was a tender father — a true Friend — an indulgent 

Master. 
She -was one of" the brightest patterns of excelling nature," 
possessing a highly cultivated understanding. She luas 
7nild, considerate, kind &■ good. She was eminently 
distinguished by her amiable disposition &= unassuming 
manners. With calmness, but zvith resolution, she bore 
the heaviest afflictions — the severest trials oj this uncertain 
world ; &• evinced her firm reliance upon a State of Happi- 
ness far beyond the grave. 

" That state celestial where no storm assails, 
No ills approach — luhere bliss, alone, prevails." 

For further notice of William Moore, of Moore Hall, see " Life of Dr. William Smith," by H. W. 
Smith; Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. iv., p. 377; "William Moore of Moore Hall," by ^"^^ ^ J '•-""" >'" 
packer. For his services, " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. ii., p. 506 ; vol. ix., pp. 679, 680. 681, 
682, 689, 690. 



148 T H E A N C E S T R Y O F 

6. Rebecca Moore, married October 28, 1708, John Evans, ^s Lieutenant-Governor of 

Pennsylvania from 1704 to 1709. John Evans appears to have returned 
to England soon after his marriage. He was living in London, February, 
171 1. In 1716 and 1736 he was residing in Denbigh, County of Denbigh, 
Wales.-* 

7. MARY MOORE, died November 6, 1733; married Peter Evans. 

8. Charles Moore, buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia, August 17, 1712. 

9. Somerset Moore, buried at Christ Church, October 4, 1712. 
ID. Richard Moore. 



VIL Mary Moore, married Peter Evans. 
VL Margaret Evans, married David Franks. 

V. Abigail Franks, married Andrew Hamilton. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle. married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn. married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



'''James Logan writes to William Penn, from Philadelphia, ist of 7th mo., 1708 : " Honoured Gov- 
ernour : — Three days ago, Isaac Norris and family arrived safely and well, brought thy letters, to our very 
great satisfaction. I have communicated to the Lieutenant-Governour what thou hast been pleased to 
mention of his removal, which proves very disagreeable, not for the loss of the Government, he says, but of 
the manner of it. It has broke his intended match with John Moore's daughter, which would have been 
accomplished ere this, had not Captain Finney's arrival, about a month before Isaac, given earlier notice of 
it. He fully resolved, whether Governour or not, to settle among us, for which purpose he bought a planta- 
tion at Swanhook, near New Castle, where he has been making some useful improvements ; but now, 
lielieving his reputation much injured, among his friends at home, by his being thus laid aside, he thinks him- 
self obliged to appear there to right it, and therefore talks of coming over in the Spring." 

In the ensuing year, 1709, James Logan writes that he had lost his intended companion for his voyage, 
which he was about to make to England, for that Colonel Evans was married on the 28th of October, to the 
fair Rebecca Moore. 

(Penn and Logan Correspondence. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. x., p. 284.) 

2* Release, dated February 9, 17 — , John Evans of Denbigh, in the Co. of Denbigh, Great Britain, 
Esqr. to Thomas James, recites transfers from William Penn, October 24 and 25, 1681, to William Mordent 
(alias Mordaunt) of Lansterwell in the county of Pembroke, Esq., for 500 acres of land in Pennsylvania, and 
deed from Thomas and Osmond Mordent, sons of the said William, dated February 29, 171 1, unto the afore- 
said John Evans (under the name of John Evans late of Pensilvania biU now of London, Esqr) and the said 
John Evans did grant said land to John Moore, March 5, 17 — . (Philadelphia Deeds, Liber F, No. 3, 
folio 243.) 

Deed, March 5, 1716. John Evans of Denbigh, etc., Esqr. to John Moore of Philadelphia, Esqr. 
tract of land commonly called the Manor of Steyning, situate on the Brandywine Creek, which John Evans 
purchased from William Penn, Junr. and all other lands in Pennsylvania, the three lower counties or in the 
Provincies of East or West New Jersey, In Trust, that the said John Moore may sell the same. (Philadelphia 
Deeds, Liber E, vol. vii.. No. 10, folio 374.) 

June 23, 1736. Deed from John Evans, of the County of Denbigh, Esqr., to William Penn of London, 
Esquire, concerning the Manor of Steining. (Philadelphia Deeds, Liber F, No. 9, folio 147.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 149 



MORRIS. 

Generation IX. 
Anthony Morris, born about 1600, was at one time a resident of Read- 
ing, in Great Britain, and subsequently of Barbadoes, in the West Indies. 

VIII. 
Anthony Morris, son of the above, married Ehzabeth Senior, about or 
before 1653. He was styled "mariner," and made voyages between London and 
Barbadoes. He left an only child. 

VII. 

Anthony Morris, son of Anthony and Elizabeth, born August 23, 1654; 
baptized at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London, two days later ; died Octo- 
ber 23, 1721, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; married (i) First month 30, 1676, 
Mary Jones, in Friends' Meeting at Savoy, in the Strand, London. She 
died m Philadelphia Third month 8, 1688. Anthony Morris married (2) 
Eighth month 28, 1689, at Philadelphia Meeting, Agnes Bom, widow of 
Cornelius Bom. She died without issue Fifth month 26, 1692. He mar- 
ried (3) at Newport, Rhode Island. January 18, 1693/4, Mary Coddington, 
daughter of John Howard, of Yorkshire, England, and widow of Thomas Cod- 
dington, of Rhode Island. She died Seventh month 25, 1699. 

He married (4) Eighth month 30, 1700, at Philadelphia Meeting, Elizabeth 
Watson, daughter of Luke and Sarah Watson, who died February 2, 1767, in 
her ninety-fourth year. 

Anthony Morris and his wife Mary received a certificate of removal from 
the Monthly Meeting " of ye City of Westminster " to the Monthly Meeting at 
Burlington, New Jersey, dated Ninth month i, 1682. They probably arrived 
with their son Anthony a few months later. Here they remained until 1685/6, 
and then removed to Philadelphia, where Anthony Morris soon became promi- 
nent in affairs. 

In 1 691 he was appointed one of the first six aldermen of the city. In 
1692 he was commissioned a Justice of the Peace and Courts; was re-com- 
missioned in 1693 and 1697, having doubtless served in the intervening years.^ 
In 1693 he was presiding justice of the Court of Comon Pleas and Quarter Ses- 
sions, and in 1694 was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the province, 
serving until 1698.^ In 1695 and 1696 he was a member of the Provincial Coun- 
cil of Pennsylvania,^' and from 1698 to 1704 represented Philadelphia in the 
Assembly.* In 1703 he was chosen Mayor of the city.'' 



1 Martin's " Bench and Bar," pp. 29, 42 ; " Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix., p. yoi- 

2 " Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix., p. 630. 

3 Ibid., p. 625. 

* " Votes of the Assembly," vol. i., pp. loi. 108, 118, 142 ; Appendix to same, p. xxn. ; Part II., p. 1. 

* " Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix., p. 728. 



I50 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Anthony Morris was one of those instrumental in estabUshing the pubHc 
school since known as the " Pcnn Charter School."' 

The will of Anthony Morris, of Philadelphia, brewer, dated July lo, 1721, 
and proved November 19, 1721, bequeathed to son Anthony the bank and water 
lot in Philadelphia which had formerly been made over to him, with all the 
messuages, brew-houses, malt-houses, the copper brewing utensils, negroes, 
horses, and cattle, except one cow, intended for his wife. Also to Anthony, 
all interest and estate in lands mortgaged to the testator and the said son by 
John Roads, of White Marsh, with the amount of the mortgage. His house 
and lot where he was living, bounded eastward with Front Street, south by 
Morris's Alley, west by his lot in the late possession of William Gray, and 
north by his house and lot late in the possession of Rachel Reiner, with the 
garden, to his son Anthony and Israel Pemberton, in trust, for his wife Eliza- 
beth. After the decease or marriage of his wife the said real estate to revert 
and to be a part of the residuary estate. At the time of selling this property 
any of the testator's sons or grandsons were to be allowed to purchase the 
same for one hundred pounds less than the real value. 

To wife Elizabeth so much of the plate as she should choose, not exceed- 
ing in value twenty pounds ; household goods to the value of fifty pounds ; one 
milch cow, and the sum of three hundred pounds. 

To son James ten pounds and part of the estate formerly made over to 
him, to be paid when he discharged his brother Anthony of certain obliga- 
tions. To son William one hundred pounds, and what he had formerly 
received. Son William and daughter Elizabeth were released from all they 
stood charged with by book, " provided always that whereas there was an obli- 
gation or some kind of writing, by us formerly entered into or given to my 
former wife Mary -in a familiar manner for payment of ten pounds for a hogs- 
head of rum, having given her something to trade with, in which Mary Cod- 
ington was named." In case such money be recovered by suit the costs to be 
deducted from their legacies. 

To son Isaac, two hundred and thirty pounds when of age, upon condition 
that he released to Luke Watson, his mother's brother, all his the said Isaac's 
right to a tract of land, by the testator and Isaac's mother sold to said Luke 
Watson. To his two daughters, Sarah and Hannah, two hundred pounds each 
when of age or at marriage, provided they married with the consent of their 
mother. To sons Israel and Luke two hundred pounds each, when of age. 

The share of the first child who might die under age and without issue to 
go to his grandson Anthony, son of Anthony, and if none of his eight children 
should die before the age of twenty-one years, then this grandson Anthony 
should have fifty pounds more than the five pound-s afterward bequeathed to 
him. The sum of fifteen pounds apiece to be paid to his wife Elizabeth yearly 
for each of her and the testator's children, viz. : Sarah, Luke, and Hannah, 
until they were of the age of twenty-one years. To the children of his son 
Anthony, five pounds each when of age. To every grandchild, five pounds 
when of age or at marriage. 



ROSALIEMORRIS JOHNSON 151 

To Israel Pemberton twenty pounds, to be paid to twenty such poor per- 
sons as the men's monthly meeting of the people called Quakers at Philadel- 
phia should appoint. 

After son Luke had attained full age, all the unimproved lands in Philadel- 
phia County, and the residue of properties unsold at that time, were to be dis- 
posed of and the money to be divided between the testator's eight children, 
James and William Morris, Elizabeth Lewis, Isaac, Sarah, Israel, Luke and 
Hannah Morris. 

In consideration that his daughter Sarah had never displeased him, he 
gave to her an additional legacy of thirty pounds to buy her wedding clothes, 
or what she should think fit, when of age or at marriage. 

Son Anthony Morris and Israel Pemberton appointed executors. Wit- 
nessed by Casper Wister, Joshua Lawrence and Isaac Brown. 

He made an additional provision, unwitnessed, giving to his wife twenty 
pounds yearly, during the minority of his son Luke, and to her his negro man 
Martin. 

Codicil, dated Sixth month 18, 1721, witnessed by John Wilson, George 
Sheed and Elizabeth Till, provided that out of the testator's part of the brew- 
house and malt-house given to his son Anthony, the said Anthony should sup- 
ply the testator's wife and family with beer and ale as usual, for the space of 
one year. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber D, folio 199.) 

Children of Anthony Morris and Mary Jones : 

1. Susanna Morris, born March 7, 1677; died 1682. 

2. Mary Morris, born September 18, 1678; died 1679. 

3. Anthony Morris, born April 24, 1680; died 1681. 

4. ANTHONY MORRIS, born March 15, 1682; died November 23, 1763; married 

May 10, 1704. Phebe Guest. 

5. John Morris, born April 17, 1685; died June 12, 1690. 

6. Samuel Morris, born February 28, 1686/7; died November 2, 1689. 

7. James Morris, born July 8. 1688: died November 31, I747; married March 8, 1709. 

Margaret Cook. 

Children of Anthony Morris and Mary Coddington : 

8. William Morris, born July 23, 1695; died November 6, 1776; married (i) June 

14, 1718. Sarah Dury. of Barbadoes; (2) November 2, 1752, Rebecca 
Cadwalader. 

9. Elizabeth Morris, born June 28, 1697: married (i) December 13. 1716, Samuel 

Lewis, of Barbadoes; (2) William Dury. 

10. Joseph Morris, born May 12, 1699; died July 25, 1699. 

Children of Anthony Morris and Elizabeth Watson : 

11. Isaac Morris, born December 24, 1701; died after Tenth month 24. i755- the date 

of his mother's will. 

12. Sarah Morris, born January 16, 1703/4: died October 24, I775, unmarried. 

13. Israel Morris, born December 26, 1705: died 1729- • . a ■. 

14. Luke Morris, born October 25. 1707: died November 17, I793; married April, 

1747. Mary (Allen) Richards. 

15. Hannah Morris, born July 4, I7I7; died August 25, I74i> unmarried. 



i=;2 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



The Poinsylj'aiiia Gacdlc, February 12, 1767, gives the following obituary: 

On Monday, the 2nd inst., departed tliis life, in the 94th year of her age, Mrs. 
i"",lizaljetli Morris, in whom were happily nnited the Christian and the Gentlewoman, by 
virtne of which amiable endowments she passed through the various scenes of her long 
life with honor, justly meriting the universal regard paid her by all ranks. She was blest 
with an uncommon degree of health until near the close of her life, and then bore the 
gradual decay of nature and the prospect of her important change with truly Christian 
fortitude; had her senses preserved to the last period, and having manifest her knowledge 
of the Christian Religion by her humble confidence in God and her love to her fellow 
creatures. 

Thursday following, her remains were attended by a large number of her fellow 
citizens to the burial place of the Quakers, whose principles she adopted in the early part 
of her life, and lived and died a worthy member of that society. 



VI. 

Anthony Morris, son of Anthony and Mary, born in England, March 15, 
1682; died in Philadelphia, September 23, 1763;'"' married May 10, 1704, Phebe 
Guest, born September 28, 1685; died March 18, 1768; daughter of George 
and Alice Guest. 

Anthony Morris was made a member of the Common Council of Philadel- 
phia, October 4, 1715, and served for many years.' He represented Philadel- 
phia in the Assembly, 1721-26; * was a signer of the paper currency, 1723-24;^ 
in 1733 became an alderman,^*' and at the same time was made associate mem- 
ber of the City Court. In 1725 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Board of 



"The following is a copy from an old family Bible in possession of John T. Morris, of the Knoll, 
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia: 

" My Father Anthony Morris died 23rd of Sept. 1763 about half after two in the morning, next day at 
4 P.M. was carried to the Market Street meeting house and thence to the place of interment in Friends 
burying place, he lies next his Father. He was born March i6th, 1682 in London, G. B. His father 
Anthony Morris (son of Anthony Morris Mariner who died in Barbadoes) was born in same City and was 
baptized at St. Dunstan's Stepney, asappearsby records of said Church. The family came from Leicestershire 
to London, Ex. Belat Patris mei S. M. 

" My Mother Phoebe Morris, wife of the above named Anthony Morris died i8th day of March 
(1768). She was the daughter of George Guest and Alice his wife (who was the daughter of Bayly of 

Birmingham in Great Britain) Was born in Phila. the day of September A. D. 1685 and died on the 

same spot of ground on which she was born, aged 82 years & a half, having lived a life of piety and virtuous 
economy and saw a numerous Issue to the fourth generation. She was buried in the same grave wherein her 
husband was laid about four years and a half before, with whom she had lived upwards of sixty years in 
the highest degree of conjugal affection." 

Benjamin Marshall, writing from Philadelphia to Hugh Forbes, under date of October 18, 1763, says : 
" We have lost some faitlifull iS: Worthy friends lately amongst wliich was Anthony Morris, who was buried 
the Seventh day l)efore our Yearly Meeting wliose Corps was attended to the Meeting house and burial 
Ground by a very great number of the most substantial Inhabitants as well as a vast number of Friends from 
Different parts, at meeting a noble & Weighty Testimony was deliver'd by our worthy Friend Ann Moore at 
which Meeting was present the Governour the Recorder many of the Coimcill Aldermen severall Ministers 
(of other Persuations) many Lawyers, a Great number of Merch'^'' & Private Gentlemen." — Pennsylvania 
Magazine, vol. xx., p. 204. 

' " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol, ix., p. 731 ; Minutes of Common Council. 

8 " Pennsylvania ,\rchives," 2nd series, vol. ix., p. 719. 

9 Philip's " Sketches of Paper Currency." 

1" " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. ix., p. 735. 



ROSALIE MORRISJOHNSON 153 



Overseers of the Public School, on which he continued to serve until his 
death. 

In 1738 he was made Mayor of the city,'i and served one year. Some 
years later he was again appointed for this office. 

On Oct. 6, 1747, when Alderman Morris was re-elected to serve as Mayor, he could 
not be found, so that a notice might be served upon him, and it became so evident at last 
that his absence was intentional, that a new election had to be made. 

In the Minutes of the City Council we find the following entries referring to this 
matter ; 

'• 6. October 1747, P. M.— W. A. Atwood, Mayor, Alderman Morris, the Mayor 
" elect, not being present, Charles William, and Sam Rhoades were appointed to wait on 
" him, to acquaint him the Board had chosen him Mayor for the year ensuing. 

" The two members appointed to acquaint Alderman Morris that he was elected 
" Mayor returned and informed the Board they had been at his House, and were told 
" by his daughter that he was gone out of Town. 

" The Board being under some difificulty for want of knowing whether the Mayor 
" elect would serve in the said ofifice, concluded to m;eet again the afternoon to consider 
" what was proper to be done on this occasion. 

'"6. Oct. 1747. The Board being met to consider what was necessary to be done 
" on occasion of the Mayor Elect's being gone out of town; the Recorder informed the 
" Board he had consulted the Attorney General & it was his opinion that a written Notice 
" should be sent to Alderman Morris' House, signifying he was so elected as aforesaid; 
" and likewise that a messenger should be sent into the country, where it was said he was 
" gone with a like Notice, who should endeavor to procure his answer whether he could 
" serve in the same oliice or not. In which opinion a majority of the Board concurred. 
" And accordingly two such Notices were made out and signed by the Clerk & the City 
" seal affixed to each by order of the Board, one of which was delivered to Charles Stow, 
" to be left with Alderman Morris's wife or some one of the family, if he should not be 
" at home, & the other was delivered to James Whitehead, who was ordered to go up 
" into Berks County or wherever else he might be informed Alderman Morris was gone 
" & endeavor to serve him personally with the sd notice, & bring his answer to the Board 
" at the next meeting. 

'■ 9 Oct. 1747. James Whitehead the Person employed to serve Alderman Morris 
" with notice of his being elected Mayor, being called in and sworn said, that he had been 
" up into Berks County, & at Trenton, where it was said Mr. Morris was gone, & tho' he 
" had used his utmost Endeavor, that he had not been able to find him. 

" Charles Stow being likewise called in and sworn, said that he had been at the 
" Dwelling House of Alderman Morris and read the notice he was sent with to his wife, 
" and would have delivered it to her, but she refused to receive it and said her husband 
" was from home and she believed he would not return till Saturday night. 

" The Board considering the Mayor Elect did not appear, to accept of the sd office 
"and take and subscribe the usual Qualifications within the time limited by Charter: allho' 
■' the proper means had been used to give him Notice of his Election, it was necessary 
" to proceed to a new choice, and thereupon Wm. Attwood was Chosen Mayor for the 
" year ensuing by a majority of Vote." i'- 



1* " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. ix., p. 729. 

^' The above well-known family tale is here given as related by Dr. Moon in the Morris Genealogy, 
vol. i., p. 153. 



154 THE ANCESTRY OF 

The will of Anthony Morris, of Philadelphia, brewer, in weak and declin- 
ing state as to health, dated September 29, 1760, proved October 29, 1763, 
devised to his wife Phoebe Morris all his wearing apparel and confirmed to her 
the bill of sale made to her of all his household goods and furniture, only 
excepting the household plate, the use of which plate was given to her for 
life, and afterwards devised to those of his sons who might survive her ; includ- 
ing in this division his grandson Anthony, son of his deceased son James. To 
his wife, so long as she should live, was left his house and lot on Second 
Street, purchased of Rebecca Moore and others, being that wherein he was 
dwelling, with the brew-house, malt-house, mill, house, stable, chaise-house 
and garden. Also such part of his stock of malt, barley, hops, beer, ale and 
wood as would amount to twelve hundred pounds. Also his negroes, men and 
women, his chaise and harness, dray and cask, mill-horse, saddle-horse, mares, 
colts, and dray-horse ; also for life, his lot and wharf and messuages thereon in 
Front and Kings Streets, known and called the Crooked Billet, she keeping 
them in tenable repair ; also the rents and incomes of his whole estate, real and 
personal, for two years. 

After his wife's decease his mansion house, lot, etc., with the fixed 
brewing utensils should be let out and the neat produce thereof, for the term 
of seven years next following, should be for his daughters Elizabeth and 
Deborah, and the children of his five sons, Anthony, James, deceased, John, 
Samuel and Joseph, who should be living at the time of the decease of his 
wife. At the expiration of the seven years the said property was devised to 
his grandchildren, viz. : William and Mary Morris, children of his son John ; 
to grandson Anthony, son of his eldest son Anthony, and the other children 
of son Anthony ; to his other grandson Anthony, son of James, deceased ; to 
granddaughter Mary, daughter of James, deceased ; to grandson John, son of 
Samuel, and the other children of Samuel ; to grandson George, son of Joseph, 
and Joseph's other children. 

If his wife should see meet to give up the business of brewing, an olTer for 
rental should first be made to his grandson Anthony, brewer, at the annual 
rent of one hundred and thirty pounds. At time of the sale of the mansion, 
Anthony, son of Anthony, should have the same privilege of purchase at five ' 
thousand pounds, to be deducted from his share, the above devise and bequest 
to said Anthony to be upon condition that he should teach and instruct Anthony 
Morris, son of Samuel, in the art, mystery and trade of a brewer and malster, 
and that he should treat the said Anthony tenderly and affectionately while he 
should be under his direction for that purpose. 

To his esteemed and trusted friends, Abel James and Owen Jones, of 
Philadelphia, merchants, their heirs and executors, for the term of fourteen 
generations, was left in trust, for the use of his devisees and legatees, nine 
ground rents, amounting to twenty-five pounds, seven shillings, arising out of 
grants made by his father, Anthony Morris, deceased, and others, from his 
said father's Front and Second Streets lots, and on Morris Alley, and pur- 
chased of his father's legatees and others, the said rents due from the follow- 



ROSALIEMORRISJOHNSON 155 



ing: Richard Armitt, Thomas England, Peter Stretch, John Wilson, William 
Gray, John Budd, Richard Tomlinson and Thomas Wharton. Also to said 
friends and trustees, for the term and uses already mentioned, the late mansion 
seat, lot and premises of his father, Anthony Morris, deceased, being on the 
west side of Front Street and north side of Morris Alley, purchased from his 
brother, William Morris, the same confirmed to his trustees for fourteen gen- 
erations for the use of his children and their issue, as follows : First, in default 
of issue to son John, then to son Samuel, next to son Joseph Morris. To son 
Joseph Morris, three ground rents from three lots in Morris Alley, payable 
by John Budd, Patrick Farrell, Thomas Wharton and Richard Tomlinson. 
The same, in default of issue, to his grandson Anthony, son of James, or to son 
Samuel, or son Joseph. To his son Samuel Morris, ground rents from lots in 
Morris Alley, payable by Richard Armitt, Peter Stretch and Thomas England. 

To son Joseph, two ground rents from lots in Morris Alley, payable by 
Thomas England. To oldest son Anthony, all the late mansion seat of his 
father, it being on the west side of Front Street and north side of Morris 
Alley ; also the rent from John Armitt. To son Samuel the meadow and marsh 
ground purchased of John Warner, William Davis and David Gibson, on the 
westerly side of Schuylkill, in Kingsess, opposite to Passyunck Bank, upon 
condition that Samuel procure and purchase live acres of equal value for his 
brother Joseph in that neighborhood. To son Samuel and Hannah his wife, 
for the term of ten years, the lot on east side of Second Street, and west side 
of Dock Street, below the Second Street bridge, with the buildings and tan 
yard thereon, at the end of ten years they or their daughter Hannah or their 
heirs, to pay fifteen hundred pounds for the use of the estate, whereupon the 
said property was to become their own. To son Joseph, the house and lot in 
which he, Joseph, lately dwelt, purchased of Samuel Ring, also the ground rent 
on lot on Second Street, payable by Alexander Badcoke, in order that Joseph 
might pay the like sum chargeable on the said house where he lately dwelt, 
contiguous to his present dwelling; also to Joseph the house and lot on upper 
Front Street, which was the estate of Richard Redman. To his daughter 
Deborah a house and lot on Second Street and Letitia Court, purchased of 
Joseph Noble. 

All the estate in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, not otherwise bequeathed 
to be valued and parts to the valuation of seven hundred and thirty pounds 
devised to Mary, Isaac and Anthony, children of his son James ; three hundred 
and fifty-six pounds to his son John ; two hundred and fifty-three pounds to his 
son Joseph ; two hundred and twenty-eight pounds to daughter Elizabeth 
Shoemaker, and two hundred and eight pounds to his daughter Deborah 
Morris. 

To his brother Luke Morris, daughter Deborah Morris, and grandson 
Samuel Powell, he devised in trust for the use of Abigail Griffiths, wife of Wil- 
liam Griffiths, late of Philadelphia, merchant, three hundred and eighty-one 
pounds and five shillings. To grandson Samuel Powel, a silver tankard of 
value of seventeen pounds ; to granddaughter Sarah Powel, a silver tankard 



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of same value ; to sister Sarah Morris twenty pounds ; to friend Margaret 
Ellis, inmate [i.e., living ni the house J of Thomas Thomas, of Radnor, five 
pounds. 

To eight of the most virtuous aged poor of the city, according to the 
judgment of the executors, sixteen pounds, to be expended on them in such 
most useful apparel as executors should see meet, forty shillings to each of them. 
His sons, James, John, Samuel and Joseph, were released from debts due, 
except debts made after the death of James, and relative to his children's 
accounts. To his wife a bond from son Anthony Morris to William Morris of 
Trenton. Residue' of estate to son Anthony and his son Anthony, " now dwell- 
ing with me." To Anthony and Mary Morris, children of son James, deceased, 
when of age; to sons, John, Samuel and Joseph, and daughters, Deborah Mor- 
ris and Elizabeth Shoemaker, each one-seventh part of the residuary estate. 

Brother William Morris, of Trenton, merchant, friends John Smith, now 
of Burlington, merchant, and William Callendar, of Philadelphia, merchant, 
overseers ; wife Phoebe and his four sons, Anthony, John, Samuel and Joseph, 
and daughter Deborah, appointed executors. Witnessed by Jeremiah Elfreth, 
Aquila Jones and Michael Hillegas. 

Codicil dated September 21, 1763. His daughter Deborah to follow in the 
entail of his father's mansion devised in remainder to grandson Samuel. In 
lieu of money bequeathed to son John, two mortgages from John Dickey and 
David Ried in Cumberland County. Son Anthony Morris not to act as execu- 
tor during the life of his wife Elizabeth. Share in the Brunswick Copper Mine, 
purchased of Thomas Preston, to be taken as part of residuary estate ; execu- 
tors to advance money for carrying on the mine and also for his share in the 
Pequea Mine. Witnessed by Johannes Kopel and Rachel Bearmore. (Philadel- 
phia Wills, Liber N, folio 42.) 

Children of Anthony Morris and Phebe Guest : 

1. ANTHONY MORRIS, born January 14, 1705; died October 2. 1780; married 

(i) March, 1730, .Sarah Powel; (2) April 30, 1752, Elizabeth Hudson. 

2. James Morris, born September 8, 1707; died June 29, 1750; married March 12, 

1729, Elizabeth Kearney. 

3. John Morris, born June 23, 1709; died February 3, 1782; married April 18, 1734, 

Mary Sutton. 

4. Samuel Morris, born September 20. 1710; died October 7, 1710. 

5. Samuel Morris, born November 21, 1711; died March 31, 1782; married May 26, 

"^lily Hannah Cadwalader. 

6. Mary Morris, born October 13. 1713; died October 31, 1759; married November 

9, 1732, Samuel Powel. 

7. Joseph Morris, born March 10, 1714/5: died July i, 1785: married (i) February 

18, 1741, Martha Fitzwater; (2) November 7, 1765, Hannah Mickle. 

8. Elizabeth Morris, born October 21, 1716; married September 6, 1739, Benjamin 

Shoemaker. 

9. Benjamin Morris, born December 30. 1717/18; died September 7, 1719. 

10. Phebe Morris, born July 4, 1721 ; died May 5. 1722. 

11. Susanna Morris, born September 27, 1722; died August 13, 1724. 



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12. Deborah Morris, born January 17, 1723/4; died March 31, 1793, unmarried, 

13. Benjamin Morris, born May 7, 1725; died May 14, 1755, unmarried. 

14. A DAUGHTER, born July 19, 1726; died July 19, 1726. 

The will of Phebe Morris, of Philadelphia, widow and relict of Anthonv 
Morris, late of the said city, brewer, devised her entire estate to her children, 
John, Samuel, Joseph, Elizabeth Shoemaker and Deborah Morris. Three sons 
and daughter Deborah, executors. Dated September 27, 1763; proved April 
4, 1768. Witnessed by Leonard Melchior and Elias Lewis Freickel. (Philadel- 
phia Wills, Liber O, folio 221.) 

V. 

Anthony Morris, son of Anthony and Phebe, born January 14, 1705; 
died October 2, 1780; married (i) in 1730, Sarah Powel, born June 29, 1713; 
died June 10, 1751 ; daughter of Samuel and Abigail Powel. He married (2) 
April 30. 1752, Elizabeth Hudson, born February 20, 1721/2; died Mav 22, 
1783; daughter of William and Jane (Evans) Hudson. The following is a 
copy of their marriage certificate : 

WHEREAS Anthony Morris, of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pensil- 
vania, Brewer, son of Anthony Morris of the same Place, And Elizabeth Hudson Daughter 
of William Hudson of the City aforesaid. Having declared their Intentions of marriage 
with each other before several monthly meetings of the People called Quakers at 
Philad''^. aforesaid according to the good order used amongst them, and having consent 
of Parents and Friends concerned, their said Proposal of Marriage was allowed of by the 
said Meeting. NOW these are to certify whom it may concern that for the full accom- 
plishing their said Intention this the thirtieth day of the fourth month, in the year of 
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty two, they the said Anthony Morris & 
Elizabeth Hudson appeared in a publick meeting of the said People at Philad'*. aforesaid. 
And the said .'Vnthony Morris taking the said Elizabeth Hudson by the hand did in solemn 
manner openly declare that he took her the said Elizabeth Hudson to be his Wife, prom- 
ising thro' the Lord's assistance to be unto her a Faithfull and Loving Husband untill 
Death should seperate them, And then and there in the same assembly the said Elizabeth 
Hudson did in like manner declare that she took him the said Anthony Morris to be her 
Husband promising thro' the Lord's assistance to be unto him a Loving and Faithfull 
Wife untill Death should seperate them. And moreover they the said Anthony Morris 
and Elizabeth Hudson (she according to the custom of marrige assuming the name of 
her Husband) as a further Confirmation thereof did then and there to these presents set 
their hands. And we whose names are hereunto also subscribed, being present at the 
solemnization of the said marriage and subscription have as witnesses thereunto set our 



hands the Dav and Year above written. 



Hannah Hurford 
Mary Wain Jun"" 
Mary Emlen 
Rachel Pemberton 
Elizabeth Shipley 
Eliz* Morris 
Sarah Morris 
Mary Powel 
Mary Morris 
Hannah Ogden 



Rachel Jory 
Jane Hudson 
Susanna Hudson 
Sami Hudson 
Deborah Morris 
Abigail Griflitts 
William GrifiiUs 



Anthony Morris Jr. 

Eliz* Morris 
Anth° Morris 
Phebe Morris 
Wm. Hudson 
Jane Hudson 
Sam^ Morris 
Jos. Morris 
Sam' Morris Jun"" 
W: Morris 
Martha Morris 



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Michael Lightfoot 
William Hammans 
Mordccai Yarnall 
John Arniitt 
Israel Pemberton 
Bcnj'"* Trotter 
Will"! Logan 
John Smith 
Isr: Pemberton Jun'. 



Isaac Greenleafe 
Joseph Wharton Jun"" 
Thomas Powell 
Owen Jones 
Solomon Rochford 
William Shipley 
Joshua Crosby 
W°^ Dimsdale 
Jam^ Logan 



Sarah Logan 
Mary Pemberton 
Grace Growdon 
Elizabeth Stevens 
Susanna Dilwyn 
Esther White 
Mary Bringhurst 
Eliz* Bringhurst 
Eliz'^ Norris 
Mary Griffitts 



(In the certificate the three columns above are to the right of those given on the 
preceding page.) 

Anthony Morris, on Eighth month 8, 1742, was elected an overseer of the 
PubHc School of Philadelphia and served until 1758. In 1748 he was one of 
those who established the poptdar social club known as the " Colony in 
Schuylkill." This organization is still in existence. He was one of those 
instrumental in founding the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751, in which year he 
contributed $165.56 towards its funds. In 1753 he was one of the City Asses- 
sors, and on November 7, 1765, signed the Non-importation Agreement. 

Elizabeth Hudson was a highly esteemed minister in the Society of 
Friends. Her diary, begun in 1743, and continuing over several years, contains 
much of interest. From it are taken the following: 



EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF ELIZABETH HUDSON WHO MARRIED 

ANTHONY MORRIS. 

An abstract of the travels with some other remarks of Elizabeth Hudson from 22nd 
of nth month 1743. "on which it pleased the Lord to open my mouth for the first time 
in public, which was in prayer in Philadelphia at the Bank Meeting house, a day I trust 
never to be forgot by me, as being a day of fresh visitation to my poor soul, as I had 
long lain under the weight and exercise of the ministry, it having from the fifteenth year 
of my age until that time, in which I in deep humility gave up, appeared as an incumbent 
duty upon me; but for diverse years the cross of Christ prevented my giving up in 
obedience to the said requiring, though diverse times had to see my acceptance with God 
depended thereon & that if I withstood Him in the way of His leading He would with- 
draw those sweet influences of divine love which in the early part of my life He had been 
graciously pleased to favour me with, to the tendering & melting my heart, making me 
so far in love with Him as that I was willing to forsake those of my companions whom I 
had greatly delighted in and those amusements which the youth falsely call innocent; for 
was now convinced of the preciousness of time, that was never lengthened out to us to be 
wasted in vanity." 

Went on a tour with several friends to meetings in the Jerseys, 1744. Attended 
meetings in Germantown and a number of places in Pennsylvania. Visited her friend 
Elizabeth Norris at Fairhill for some time. 

1745. Went on a religious tour of several weeks through the Jerseys. 

1746. Stayed at home and only visited neighboring meetings. 



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1747. Went on a tour to Long Island. Stopped on the journey at house of J. Evans, 
a relative and friend near Plymouth. Visited meetings in Montgomery and Bucks Coun- 
ties on the way. Felt constrained to make a religious visit to England and obtained con- 
sent of the meeting. Took passage on the " Pembrook " and sailed from Chester, Dela- 
ware River, with her friend and companion Jane Hoskins on the 27th of nth mo. 1747, 
taking a letter from the monthly meeting, liberating her for religious service in Europe. 
Landed in Dublin five weeks from the day they set sail. Went on a religious tour all 
over Ireland. 

1748. On the i8th of 9th mo. went on board a vessel at Dublin, bound for Bristol, 
but after two days bad weather the vessel w^as driven back to Dublin. Sailed again in a 
few days and landed at Bristol 22d of 9th month. Went to Bath and then to London. 

1749. Went on travelling and preaching through England and Scotland. 

1750. Continued travelling and preaching through England and Wales. Nearly all 
the journeys were made on horseback. 

1751. 27th of 3d month, left London and reached Gravesend, and next day went on 
board the ship " Caroline." Stephen Messard, master, and after eight weeks tumbling 
about landed at Philadelphia, where she found her family much as she had left them and 
met with an affectionate welcome from parents and other relatives. At the last meeting 
in London before leaving had a presentament of coming evil and requested the prayers 
of the living. While at sea had another vision of coming unhappiness and that her com- 
panion during all the journey, Jane Hoskins, should be instrumental in bringing about 
the unhappiness. This presentament was so strong that she informed her companion of 
it and the part she should take. This destroyed much of the pleasure felt at the prospect 
of seeing relations again after an absence of 3 years and 3 months, exclusive of time at sea. 

She visited her friend and relation, Hannah Cooper, who had in her absence buried 
her husband, being " my uncle by marriage." Soon after went to Merion Meeting where 
she met her worthy friend John Evans from North Wales. The fall following the yearly 
meeting being larger than usual it was held in the State House. " In the eighth month 
following I had it in my heart to visit my friends at Wilmington and my near friend 
Esther White offered to go with me as also my friend A. Morris accompanied us, where 
my meeting with dear E. Shipley was joyous to both. In this journey my husband that 
now is, first acquainted me with his intention of offering himself to me as a suitor for 
marriage, which I was to take under consideration; which affair I think I duly weighed, 
and in the 2d month following (1752) concluded to accomplish; but before that was done, 
between the monthly meetings in which we proposed our marriage, I performed a visit 
to Friends within the verge of our Quarterly Meeting, Eliz^ Morgan being my com- 
panion from North Wales, where had a large favoured meeting in J. E.'s family: from 
hence we went to Providence and to Wm. Evans, Potts furnace and so over the Blue 
Mountains and back to the Forest, taking the meetings thereaway, which took up the 
best part of three weeks. After these meetings were over returned home a few days 
before our monthly meeting, where we were left to our liberty to conclude our marriage, 
which was solemnized on the 30th day of Second month 1752, at our meeting house at 
Philadelphia. We were favoured with the company of our esteemed friend Wm. Hani- 
nion [Hammans] from Duck Creek and E. Shipley who had come on purpose to attend 
our marriage. The meeting w-as large and the public service weighty and particularly 
suitable to the occasion. I had a good meeting which had a tendency to confirm me I 
was right in the present undertaking. About six weeks after our marriage my husband 
went with me to the marriage of Gideon Bickerdike with Hannah Watson at Trenton, 
where was a large meeting. The Fall following our yearly meeting being held at Bur- 



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lington, went in companj- witli E. Shipley to it, taking Haddonfield on our way. After 
this meeting we returned home, my husband having come to accompany us. The remain- 
ing part of this Winter was under a necessity to remain at home. The Spring following 
my first son was born on the lolh day of 3rd month, March, being the year 1753. We 
named him W'ni. Hudson Morris. The first journey after my recovery was to Lancas- 
ter, from whence had purposed to go to West River yearly meeting, but thought it best 
to return home, lest after all the fatigues of such a long journey, instead of the reward of 
peace, be queried with after this humbling manner, who hath required this of thy hand? 
After being at one meeting and visiting my particular friend S. Wright, returned home, 
where soon after was brought under great exercise of mind from various causes both 
within and without, insomuch that I was fearful I should make shipwreck of faith. No 
language is sufificient to set forth to the full what my soul passed through for many 
months, such unspeakable poverty of spirit with failure of inward strength and almost of 
all outward help when through the complicated provocations and temptations I then 
met with, I stood in the greatest need that in any stage of life had done. I was be- 
reft of all outward consolation, even those with whom I had taken sweet counsel 
became estranged from me. I several times went to country meetings in hopes 
that change of place might produce a change of state, but to no good purpose. About 
this time it opened in my mind as what would be most likely to settle my mind to retire 
into the country as I could not in the state I was in properly attend to the cares of so 
large a family as was then the head of, or was the daily concourse of people about busi- 
ness pleasant to me. My husband fell in with my proposal much readier than I expected & 
sundry circumstances concurred to lead to it, I believe by the interposition of Providence. 
We left the city in the latter part of the year 1756 and settled at our place in Southwark, 
soon after which was visited with a severe fit of illness which brought me very low and be- 
fore I recovered my husband fell ill with a nervous fever which brought him to the 
brink of the grave and upon me grevious exercise. After continuing two years at the farm 
and our health not recovering, thought it best to let it and leave ofif all business, which 
some favourable turns in our circumstances admitted of. We then went to the place we had 
formerly kept as a country house, to which moved in 1758, where we enjoyed better 
health and had less care upon me. At this place I had my second son Luke, who was 
born 4th month, April, 10th and the 4th of the week just seven years and one month, being 
1760 after his brother William. After the birth of this son was favoured with a better 
state of health than had been blessed with for some years, by which means got more to 
meetings both at home and abroad. In about six weeks after my son's birth my well 
esteemed friend Grace Lloyd departed this life. I went to her burial at Chester where 
had a large solid meeting, ist month, Jany. 1761 was proclaimed our present king George 
3d. his royal Grandfather being full of years departed this life 25th of 9th month, having 
filled the exalted station with honour allotted him by Providence. Being invited to attend 
the funeral of my cousin William Evans, my husband accompanied me to Evesham meet- 
ing house, where we met the company who came with the corpse for interment." 

"nth month 28th 1761, my third son was born & deceased the week following in a 
fit. I was brought very low by heavy bodily complaints which confined me some time at 
home." 

ABSTRACT OF WILL OF ANTHONY MORRIS, 1781. 

The will of Anthony Morris, of Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, gentleman, 
" in good bodily health, pretty far advanced in years," dated June 27, 1777; proved July 14, 
1781; wife Elizabeth had been provided for by deed of settlement, and sons Samuel and 
Israel had received their portions. 

To daughter Deborah Franklin, wife of John Franklin of the city of New York, 
merchant, ground rent payable by Dennis Dougherty on a lot on the bank of Delaware, 



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on the west side of Water Street and east side of Front Street; also ground rent from 
lot held by John Mayes, adjoining above lot; also all the messuage and lot on each side 
of Second Street opposite New Market in tenure of Sarah Reynolds; also three lots on 
north side of Pewter Platter Alley; and a messuage and lot on Front Street and Water 
Street^ in tenure of Walter Drumond. 

To daughter Sarah Buckley, wife of William Buckley of Demarare, merchant, lot 
on north side of Lombard Street, in tenure of John Palmer, but if same be purchased by 
said Palmer, daughter Sarah to have in IPeu thereof, rent from lot late in the tenure of 
John Ross, Esq., deceased; all the messuage and lot on south side of Market or High 
Street and on east side of Fourth Street, in tenure of Geo. Heil; also messuage and lot 
on south side of Market Street in tenure of William Ritchards, and messuage and lot on 
east side of Water Street in tenure of Daniel Fuller. 

To son Thomas Morris the following properties : east side of Water Street, in 
tenure of Christopher Seller and all the messuage, brew-house, malt-house, lot of ground 
and wharves late in the tenure of Francis Wade and the two bank messuages and lot 
opposite the said brew-house, in tenure of William Dwyer and William Nichols, son 
Thomas paying to testator's daughter Deborah Franklin, £260. 

To sons William and Luke, the plantation called " Solitude " situate between the 
Moyamensing and Passyunk Roads, in the district of Southwark aforesaid, containing 
sixty-two acres; also the meadow ground on Gloucester Road, in Moyamensing township, 
bounded east by the river Delaware, west by said road and south by ground of James 
Hamilton, containing twelve acres, said sons paying the sum of £3020 unto the testator's 
several creditors. 

Residue of estate, including plate, to three sons, Thomas, William and Luke, and 
two daughters, Deborah and Sarah. Wife and three sons appointed executors. "And if 
any doubts shall happen to arise amongst my said wife and children concerning the true 
intent and meaning of this my said last will and testament, it is my desire that they shall 
coolly and deliberately, with that brotherly affection as becometh children of one father, 
settle the same, but if that cannot be done to the satisfaction of all my said executors then 
any three of them agreeing their sence shall be conclusive; or if three of them cannot 
joyn in sentiments then my advice and request is to choose four judicious and conscien- 
tious Friends of the people called Quakers to settle the same, and the agreement of any 
three of them shall determine the case." 

Witnessed by Thomas Penrose, William ClifFton and Peter Miller. 

Codicil dated September 29, 1780: To son William Morris, the messuage plantation 
and tract of land called " Solitude,'' situate in the district of Southwark and township of 
Moyamensing . . containing sixty-three acres (in his actual possession now being) ; also 
meadow on Gloucester Road, in county of Philadelphia, containing twelve acres, said 
William paying £3000 toward the payment of the testator's debts. 

To son Thomas the messuage and ground on the east side of Water Street, lately 
in tenure of Christopher Seller; messuage and lot on east side of Water Street, late in 
possession of Francis Wade, with the wharves, store-houses and appurtenances; also the 
messuage and ground adjoining said store-houses, in tenure of John Ricse, said son 
Thomas paying the remainder of testator's debts. 

To daughter Deborah, wife of John Franklin, the messuage and lot on the bank 
between Front Street and Water Street, in tenure of Mary Crawford, in lieu of the mess- 
uage and lot near the New Market, in will devised to her, which had been sold to Thomas 
Harper. To daughter Sarah wife of William Buckley of Demarara, merchant, the 
messuage and lot on bank between Front Street and Water Street, adjoining lot devised 
to daughter Deborah Franklin, in tenure of Francis Dwyer, in lieu of the messuage and 
lot on Market Street devised to her by the will which had since been bargained, but not 
conveyed to William Richards the Breachcsmaker for £1200. 

To son Luke in lieu of lands devised by will unto him, " the messuage or tenc- 

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ment, plantation and tract of land situate in the district of Southwark called ' Peckham,' 
containing nine acres." 

Son William to have the messuage and corner lot, on east side of Fourth Street 
and south side of Market Street, by will devised to daughter Sarah Buckley, William pay- 
ing to said Sarah, during the life of testator's wife Elizabeth, the rent of £25, etc. 

Witnessed by Peter Miller and James Sparks, Jr. 

Elizabeth Morris, William and Luke Morris renounced executorshii) in favor of 
Thomas Morris, Jr., to whom letters were granted July 18, 1781. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber R, folio 431.) 

Children of Anthony Morris and Sarah Powel : 

1. Anthony Morris, born November 25. 1731; died January 29, 1732. 

2. Samuel Morris, born June 24, 1734; died July 7, 1812; married December 11 

1755, Rebecca Wistar. 

3. Deborah Morris, born November 15, 1736; died September 23, 1787; married 

July 8, 1756, John Franklin, of New York. 

4. Anthony Morris, born October 8, 1738; died January 3, 1777; killed at Princeton. 

5. Israel Morris, born April 6, 1741; died October 30, 1806; married Mary Harrison. 

6. Sarah Morris, born July 2, 1743; died January 20, 1830; married April 11, 1771, 

William Buckley. 

7. Thomas Morris, born January 25, 1746; died October 2, 1809; married October 

6, 1768, Mary Saunders. 

Children of Anthony Morris and Elizabeth Htidson : 

8. William Morris, born March 10, 1753; died September 14, 1807; married Sep- 

tember 5, 1776, Sarah Warder. 

9. LUKE MORRIS, born April 10, 1760: died March 20, 1802; married May 9, 

1786, Ann Willing. 

ID. Isaac Morris, born November 28, 1761; died 1761. 



IV. 

William Morris, son of Anthony and Elizabeth Morris, was born March 12. 
1753; died September 14, 1807; married September 5, 1776, at Philadelphia 
Meeting, Sarah Warder, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Warder. She died 
Febrtiary 5, 1818, aged sixty-five years and eight days. 

Children of William Morris and Sarah Warder : 

1. Anthony Morris, born September 18, 1777; died November 10, 1779. 

2. Jeremiah Morris, born January 12, 1779; died August 10, 1779. 

3. Elizabeth Morris, born August i, 1780; died March 3, 1781. 

4. Anthony Morris, born August 5, 1781; died 1858, unmarried. 

5. William Morris, born November 18, 17S2; died February 27, 1813, in the island 

of Madeira, where he had gone for his health; unmarried. 

6. Jeremiah Morris, born April 7, 1784; died July 20, 1825; married March 7, 1808, 

Sarah Billington; issue. 

7. Warder Morris, born July 13, 1785; died July 25, 1785. 



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8. Elizabeth Morris,^- born February 10, 1788; died January 18, 1826; married 

Jacob Weidman. 

9. Warder Morris, born October 3, 1789; died March 10, 1863; married March 27, 

1826, Matilda Billington; issue. 

Luke Morris, son of Anthony and Elizabeth Morris, born April 10, 1760; 
died intestate March 20, 1802; married March 9, 1786, by Rev. William White, 
Rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Ann Willing, born August 28, 1767; 
baptized October i, 1767, by Rev. Jacob D. Duche; died January 11, 1853; 
daughter of Charles Willing and Elizabeth Hannah Carrington. 

Luke Morris was commissioned captain in the Fifth Battalion, Philadel- 
phia Militia, in 1785;^^ commissioned Lieutenant of Delaware County about 
1789. He died at his residence, " Peckham," which then stood, with its 
grounds extending to the Delaware, in the district of Southwark, Philadelphia. 
He was buried in the Friends' graveyard at Fourth and Arch Streets. 

Mrs. Morris was a lady of great energy and remarkable attainments. She 
lived in the ancient English-looking house at the southeast corner of Main 
and High Streets, Germantown, from 1812 until her death. The grounds had 
a comparatively narrow front, but extensive depth, in the style of old German- 
town. A portion of the rear of this lot, on which St. Michael's Church now 
stands, was given by her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Carrington Morris, in 1856, 
to St. Michael's Parish. 

Mrs. Morris was buried in St. Luke's churchyard, Germantown. She was 
one of the originators of St. Luke's Parish, and her name appears on the first 
subscription list, in 181 1. 

Children of Luke Morris and Ann Willing: 

1. Abigail Willing Morris, born March 20, 1787; died August 18, 1858; married 

March 27, 1815, Justus Johnson. 

2. Elizabeth Morris, born February 15, 1789; died April 15, 1789. 

3. Ann Willing Morris, born March 30, 1790; died July 9, 1820; unmarried. 

4. THOMAS WILLING MORRIS, born October 23, 1792: died May 12, 1852; 

married June 19, 1823, Caroline Maria Calvert. 

5. Elizabeth Carrington Morris, born July 7, 1795; died Germantown, February 

12, 1865; unmarried; a scientific botanist. 

6. Margaret Hare Morris, born December 3, I797; died May 29, 1867; unmarried; 

a naturalist. 

7. Susan Sophia Morris, born August 11, 1800; died July 15, 1868: married March 

13, 1832, John Stockton Littell. 

The will of Ann Willing Morris, of Germantown, widow of Luke Morris, 
late of Peckham, in the County of Philadelphia, was dated February 24, 1840, 



"The name in the Bible record appears as Elizabeth. She, herself, changed it to Mary Eliza, and in 
the family, was known as Eliza. 

" " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. xv., p. 678 ; " Morris Genealogy," p. 399. 



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proved January 25, 1853. She desired to be buried near the grave of her daugh- 
ter Ann in St. Luke's churchyard in Germantown. To granddaughter Ann John- 
son she bequeathed five hundred dollars in memory of the said daughter Ann. 

In token of maternal affection she bequeathed to her son Thomas a sil- 
ver stew dish, tongs and stand, the death-bed gifts "of my honored father," 
marked C. W. ; and at the request of his father a silver bowl marked A. E. M. 
To oldest daughter Abby a silver cream pot marked Abby Willing, with the 
Willing arms engraved. To daughter Elizabeth a silver tankard, " the parting 
gift of my honored mother to me, handed down from her family in Barbadoes ; 
also at the request of her father an old-fashioned tea pot marked E. Hudson." 

To daughter Margaretta a pair of silver butter boats, ladles and waiters 
' of my mother's family plate, with my bible, her parting memento upon her 
last voyage to her native island Barbadoes." To daughter Susan a small sil- 
ver cup which " I have used from my infancy." 

In affectionate remembrance to cousin Martha Hare, to Ann, widow of 
late cousin Charles Willing Hare, deceased, and to niece Charlotte Emily 
Alleyne a mourning brooch to each. " In remembrance of our long and early 
friendship I give and bequeath to my cousin Sophia Harrison and Elizabeth 
Powell Fisher each a gold thimble, a small but sincere token." To daughter 
Elizabeth her diamond breastpin. To daughter Margaretta the remainder of 
her wearing apparel. 

To daughters Elizabeth Carrington Morris and Margaretta Hare Mor- 
ris, all the household furniture, linen, plate, etc., relating to the household estab- 
lishment not before given ; also the entire property where she was then liv- 
ing in Germantown. To daughter Margaretta Hare Morris, the unexpired 
time of Mary Ann Lutz, and if the latter performed her duties with fidelity, 
she was to be paid ten dollars more than her freedom dues. 

" I am anxious that my two unmarried Daughters Elizabeth and Mar- 
garetta should continue and maintain by amicably residing together on this 
place where I now live, bequeathed to them at my decease by my late Aunt 
Elizabeth Powell by her last will." The residue of estate to her son Thomas 
Willing Morris, and cousin Joshua Francis Fisher, during the life of said 
Elizabeth Carrington Morris and Margaretta Hare Morris, in trust, the 
income for the benefit of the two said daughters until their decease, the prin- 
cipal to be then divided into five equal shares, and one-fifth part to each of 
the following: her son Thomas Willing Morris, or if deceased to his daughter 
Anna Maria Morris; her oldest daughter Abby Willing, wife of Justus John- 
son ; her daughter Susan Sophia, wife of John Stockton Littell ; and one-fifth 
part of said residue to be at the disposal of each of her said daughters, Eliza- 
beth Carrington Morris and Margaretta Hare Morris, by their wills. 

Thomas Willing Morris and Joshua Francis Fisher appointed executors. 
Witnessed by Anthony Johnson and Samuel B. Morris. 

Codicil, dated February 16, 1848, appointed John Stockton Littell execu- 
tor in place of Joshua Francis Fisher. Witnessed by Susan E. Johnson and 



R O S A L I E M O R R I S J O H N S O N 165 



George C. Morris. Codicil proved by Susan E. Fallon, formerly Johnson, and 
George C. Morris. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 30, folio 179.) 
Attached to the original will is the following: 

The last Will & Testament enclosed herewith to be opened by her Executors 
Thomas Willing Morris and John Stockton Littell with the Codicil appended in the 
presence of as man}- of her children as may conveniently be collected together upon the 
occasion of the death of their Affectionate Mother 

Ann Willing Morris 
February 16*^^^ 1848. 

III. 

Abigail Willing Morris, daughter of Luke and Ann Morris, born March 20, 
1787; died August 18, 1858; married March 2y, 1815, Justus Johnson, born 
1780; died November 18, 1848; son of Anthony and Sarah (Rubicam) Johnson, 
of Germantown. 

Children of Justus Johnson and Abigail Willing Morris : 

1. Anthony Johnson, born December 29, 1815; died January 3, 1816. 

2. Luke Morris Johnson, born December 24, 1816; died November 14, 1854; mar- 

ried August, 1844, Ann Paul. 

Children: 
i. Abby Willing Johnson, born October 31, 1845; died April 30, 
1888; married April, 1878, Thomas Sozinskey Smith, M.D. 
ii. Justus Johnson, born October 28, 1848; married October 25, 

1877, Aurora Boys Meredith, 
iii. Anne M. Johnson, born November 14, 1850; married May 
14, 1877, Allen D. Gilmer, M.D. 

3. Ann Morris Johnson, born November 30, 1818; unmarried. 

4. Anthony Morris Johnson, born December 31, 1820: died May 4, 1891; married 

June I, 1852, Josephine Dorsey. 

Children : 
i. Reuben Dorsey Johnson, born June i, 1854; married Mary 

Lane Hobson. 
ii. Achsah Dorsey Johnson, born August 2, 1857. 
iii. Anthony Morris Johnson, born January 2, 1859. 
iv. Thomas Morris Johnson, born July i, 1861; married Sarah 

Keen. 
V. Josephine Dorsey Johnson, born July 6, 1863: died February 

27, 1864. 
vi. George Morris Johnson, born October i, 1865; married Jane 

Johnson. 
vii. Edward Carrington Johnson, born May 14, 1867; died June 

19, 1867. 
viii. Anne Elizabeth Johnson, born June 12, 1868; died August 25, 

1889. 
ix. Charles Willing Johnson, born April 30, 1871; married . 

5. Susan Elizabeth Johnson, born December 11, 1823; died September 27, 1S93; 

married March 7, 1848, John Fallon, born Cadiz, Spain, February 13, 
1819; died September 9, 1885. 



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Children : 

i. Ann Willing Fallon, born August 3, 1849; died April 7, 1850. 
ii. Josephine Fleming Fallon, born August 3, 1850; died March 

14, 1S54. 
iii. Christopher Francis Fallon, born August 23. 1851. 
iv. John Antonio Fallon, born February 21, 1855; died April 12, 

1861. 
V. Anthony Morris Fallon, born June 8, 1858; died February 25, 

]86c. 
vi. Edward Fleming Fallon, born October 25, 1861; died De- 

cemiber 18, 1865. 
vii. Agnes Rosalie Fallon, born May 30. 1867; died April 10, 1881. 

6. Charles Willing Johnson, born May 4, 1828; married December 4, 1851, Emma 

Hansel. 

Thomas Willing Morris, son of Luke and Ann Morris, born Philadel- 
phia, October 23, 1792; died May 12, 1852; married June 19, 1823, Caroline 
Maria Calvert," born July 15, 1800; died November 25, 1842; daughter of 
George Calvert and his wife, Rosalie Eugenia Stier. Thomas Willing Morris 
was a member of the Company of Captain Thomas F. Pleasants, First Regiment 
of Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Clement C. Biddle, War of 1812-14. He 
is noted in the record as secretary to the brigade major. ^^ 

The commissions of Thomas W. Morris as Aid-de-Camp to General Cad- 
walader, with the title first of Captain, then of Major ; as Inspector of Militia, 
and as member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, are all care- 
fully preserved.^" They read as follows : 

I do hereby certify that Thomas W. Morris Esquire was appointed my Aid-de- 
Camp on the is^^ day of May 1810 and acted in that capacity from that time: I having 
omitted to apply for his Commission, this Certificate of his service is given in lieu thereof. 
Witness my hand at Philadelphia this seventh day of August A. D. 1821 

T. Cadwalader; B. Gen: 

i^t. Brigade i^^ Diyi. 

Penns*. Militia 

August 3, 1821. Governor Joseph Hiester. Commission to "Thomas W. Morris, 
being duly appointed by Thomas Cadwalader, Brigadier General of the First Brigade of 
the First Division composed of the Militia of the City and County of Philadelphia, are 
hereby commissioned Aid-de-Camp to the said Brigadier General, with the rank of Cap- 
tain." 



1*" Thomas W. Morris of Philadelphia, married 19 June, 1823, Caroline Maria Calvert, eldest daughter 
of George Calvert of Riversdale, Prince George County, Md." — National Intelligencer, Washington, D. C, 
June 21, 1823. 

The same paper of 3 December, 1842, gives: "Mrs. Caroline Maria Morris, wife of Thomas 
Morris, formerly of Philadelphia, but now of Elk Ridge, Maryland, and daughter of the late George Calvert 
of Riversdale, Maryland, died at Baltimore, 25 November, 1842." 

15 " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. xii., p. 379. 

16 In possession of the compiler. 



ROSALIE MORRISJOHNSON 167 



May 30, 1824. Governor J. Andrew Shulze, Commission to Thomas W. Morris of 
the City of Philadelphia, Esquire, " the said Thomas W. Morris being duly appointed by 
Thomas Cadwalader, Esquire, Major-General of the First Division, composed of the 
Militia of the City and Countv of Philadelphia, are hereby commissioned Aid-de-camp 
to the said Major-General, with the rank of Major." 

August 3, 1828. Governor J. Andrew Shulze, Commission to Thomas W. Morris 
Esquire, " being duly appointed by the General officers of the First Division, composed 
of the Militia of the city and county of Philadelphia, are hereby commissioned Division 
Inspector." 

Philadelphia, October 14*'^ 1829 
Sir, 

At a General Election, held on the 13*'^ instant, you were duly elected a Representa- 
tive in the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, for the City of Philadelphia. 

C. T. CoLLADAY T. Morris -\ 

E. S. Scott W. T. D wight f Return 

Henry Shoemaker R. Hutchison f Judges 

Paul S. Brown R. W. Sykes j 

Rob* Rice Samuel Grant 

C. I. Jack 

Thomas W. Morris was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar July 3, 1819. 
(Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 296.) On his retirement from practice he 
removed to Maryland, where he lived for some years. He died at his seat, 
" Glenthorne," Howard County, Maryland, but was buried in the family lot 
at Laurel Hill, Philadelphia. 

WILL OF THOMAS WILLING MORRIS, 1852. 

In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas W. Morris, late of the city of Philada., 
now in the State of Mar3-land, being of sound and disposing mind, memory and under- 
standing, do make and execute this m\' last will and testament hereby revoking all other 
wills and testaments by me at any time heretofore made. It is my wish that my body 
should be interred by the side of mj- late wife at Laurel Hill Cemetery, and that the in- 
terment be conducted with simplicity and that all unnecessary expense and display be care- 
fully avoided. I hereby direct that all ni}' just debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon 
after my decease as can conveniently be done. I have already given to my son Geo. 
Calvert Morris all my law library and the gold ring presented to me by his cousin Mrs. 
Martha Peter, containing a lock of General Washington's hair, which I hope he will ever 
retain as a pledge of my affection and as a memorial of that great and good man. I here- 
by give, devise and bequeath one fourth part of my estate, real, personal and mixed, to 
my daughter Rosalie Eugenia Morris her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns 
forever. I hereby give, devise and bequeath one fourth part of my estate, real, personal 
and mixed, to my son Geo. Calvert Morris his heirs, executors, administrators and 
assigns forever. I hereby give, devise and bequeath one fourth part of my estate, real, 
personal and mixed, to my daughter Julia Meta Morris her heirs, executors, administra- 
tors and assigns forever. I hereby give, devise and bequeath the remaining fourth part 
of my estate, real, personal and mixed, to Robert H. Hare and Thomas Donaldson and 
the survivor of them his heirs, executors administrators and assigns, trustees named in the 



i68 THE ANCESTRY OF 



ante-nuptial marriage settlement made between my daughter Anna Maria and her hus- 
band Francis K. Murray in trust nevertheless and to and for the use and subject to the 
trusts, provisos and conditions and limitations in said settlement expressly set forth in 
the same manner as would have been the case if the property hereby devised and be- 
queatlud to the said trustees for my said daughter Anna Maria had been expressly men- 
tioned and included in the terms of the said settlement. But I hereby expressly empower 
the said trustees to make to and with my said daughters Rosalie and Julia and my said 
son George mutual deed of partition for the purpose of dividing my real estate in accord- 
ance with my intention hereinbefore expressed, my said daughter Anna Maria joining 
with her said trustees in said deed to show her assent thereto. But in regard to all and 
singular my lands in Susquehanna County in the State of Pennsylvania it is my will that 
the same shall be sold by my executors hereinafter named, and I hereby authorize and 
empower them to sell the said lands at private sale and to convey the same in fee simple 
and to appropriate the proceeds as above devised and bequeathed, and the purchaser or 
purchasers thereof shall not be held accountable for the application of the purchase 
money or any part thereof. I will and direct that my executors divide the mortgages 
held by me among my said children Rosalie, George and Julia and the trustees of my 
daughter Anna as soon after the return of Henry I. Williams, Esq., from Europe as can 
conveniently be done; and it is my desire that the mortgages should not be called in by 
my said executors except in case of default in the payment of the interest. Lastly, I 
hereby constitute and appoint my friends Henry I. Williams and Judge I. Clark Hare 
and my son Geo. C. Morris all of the city of Philada., and my friends Samuel B. Morris 
and John S. Little, Esquires, both of Philada. County, Penna., to be the executors of this 
my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
affixed my seal on this twenty-eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty two. 

(Signed) Thomas W. Morris, [seal] 

Witnesses, Joel Hopkins, Margaretta Hare Morris, Anthony M. Johnson, and Hen- 
rich Wehland. 

The will was probated May 20, 1852. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber 29, 
folio 393.) 

Children of Thomas Willing Morris and Caroline Maria Calvert: 

1. Rosalie Eugenia Morris, born May 5, 1824; died July 17, 1878; ^^ unmarried. 

2. Anna Maria Morris, born March 23, 1826; died March 6, 1900; married Septem- 

ber 7, 1848, Francis Key Murray. 

3. GEORGE CALVERT MORRIS, born October 16, 1828; died April 29, 1882; 

married July 15, 1856, Elizabeth Kuhn. 

4. Julia Meta Morris, born December 27, 1830; died June 8, 1857; unmarried. 



1' The will of Rosalie E. Morris of Howard County, Maryland, dated January 3, 1878, proved August 
26, 1878, bequeathed to her sister Anna M. Murray, widow of Captain F. K. Murray, United States N'avy, 
all furniture and silver plate and one halfof all other property. To brother George C. Morris of Philadelphia, 
;J5ooo in trust, the income to Mary I. Nourse and Rosa M. Nourse of the District of Columbia, and after 
their decease to Elizabeth Forrest and Louisa Forrest, nieces of said Mary I. and Rosa M. Nourse. 

To brother George C. Morris such sum as would produce ^100 yearly, which income was to be paid to 
Caroline W. Latimer, daughter of Randolph B. Latimer, of Howard Comity, Maryland, until her death, the 
principal then to revert to the residuary estate of the testator. 

Residue of estate to brother George C. Morris, who was appointed e.vecutor. 
Witnessed by John J. Donaldson, James Carey Jr., and R. D Johnson. 

(Howard County, Maryland, Wills, Liber 93, folio 78.) 



R O S A L I E M O R R I S J O H N S O N 169 

5. Henry Thomas Morris, born October 10. 1833; died December 17, 1833. 

6. Carrington Morris, born March ^9, 1835; died April 23, 1835. 

7. Eugene Carrington Morris, born Febrnary 12. 1836: died April 11, 1837. 

8. Caroline Maria Morris, born March 5, 18 — : died March 17, same year. 

Susan Sophia Morris, daughter of Luke and Ann Morris, born August 
II, 1800; died July 15, 1868; married March 13, 1832, John Stockton Littell ; 
died July n, 1875; son of Stephen and Susan Gardiner Littell, of Burlington, 
New Jersey. 



From family Bible of George C. Morris : 

Thomas W. Morris and Caroline Maria Calvert were married by the Revd. Mr. Addison the 19th day of 
June 1823 at Riversdale, Prince George County, Maryland. 

Rosalie Eugenia, first child of T. & C. Morris was born at 14 before eight o'clock on Wednesday morning 
5th May 1824. 

Anna Maria . . . second daughter of T. & C. Morris was born at 14 past twelve P. M. on Thursday 23d 
March 1826. 

George Calvert, third child of T. & C. Morris, born at 8'clock P. M. October i6th 1828. 

Julia Meta . . . fourth child of T. & C. Morris was born at seven o'clock on Monday morning December 27th 
1830. 

Henry Thomas, fifth child of T. & C. Morris was born at 'A past six o'clock A. M. October loth 1833 — and 
departed this life at 10 minutes before 8 o'clock A. M. Deer. 17th of the same year and was buried on 
the following day in Christ Church burial ground corner of Arch & 5th Sts. his death was caused by a 
Catarrhal fever. 

Carrington . . . sixth child and third son of Thos. W. and Caroline M. Morris, born at 9 o'clock on 
Sunday morning March 29th 1835 — and died at 4 o'clock in the morning on the 23rd of April following, 
aged twenty-six days of a catarrhal affection, he was interred the following day in the same grave 
with his brother Henry. 

Eugene Carrington — seventh child & fourth son of Thos. W. and Caroline M. Morris, born at half past seven 
o'clock on Friday morning the 12th February 1836 and died the nth April 1837 — at 10 minutes after 
four o'clock P. M. he was interred on the same grave with his two Brothers, on Thursday the 
13th of same month. 

Caroline 4th daughter & eighth child of T. W. & C. M. Morris born 5 o'clock P. M. Monday March 5th and 
died the 17th same month — interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery, to which place the remains of her three 
brothers were subsequently removed & interred in the same grave. 

On the 25th day of November 1842 Caroline Maria Morris departed this life in Baltimore where she went on 
the nth Nov. to consult a physician — her complaint was an affection of the breast — her remains were con- 
veyed to Philada. and most kindly and with true benevolence of feeling, received into the house of my 
excellent friend Samuel L. Shober, from where they were conveyed on the afternoon of the 28th to 
Laurel Hill — and interred near the grave of our four children — She was born the i6th day of July 
1800, died at the age of 42 ys. 4mo. 9 days. 

Francis Key Murray and Anna Maria, second daughter of T. W. & C. M. Morris, were married on the 7th 
day of September 1848 by the Rev. R. H. Waters at Grace Church, Elk Ridge Landing, Md. 

Thomas W. Morris departed this life at his residence, Glenthorne, Howard County, Md. on the 12th day of 
May A. D. 1852 at half past six o'clock P. M. Aged 59 yrs. 6mos. & 19 days. His disease, a Bronchial 
affection. His body was buried on the 15th May at Laurel Hill by the side of his late wife— Born 
Oct. 23d 1792. 

George C. Morris, son of Thos. W. & C. M. Morris, was married to Elizabeth daughter of Hartman Kuhn 
of Philada. on the isth July 1856 at 11 o'clock A. M. by Rev. Dr. Odenheimer in St. Peter's Church 
Philada. 

Francis Key Murray died near Washington on Saturday evening July nth 1868 and was buried at Rockburn 
his late residence on Tuesday afternoon July 14 — His disease was softening of the brain — 

Rosalie E. Morris, oldest daughter of T. W. & C. M. Morris died at Rockburn, Maryland, on the 17th 



I70 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Children of John S. Littell and Susan Sophia Morris : 

1. Charles Willing Littell, born December 14, 1832; died April 20, 1895; married 

March 24, 1863. Susan Lemmon. 

Children: 
i. Susan Morris Littell, born July 18, 1864; died May 27, 1801. 
ii. Eliza Lemmon Littell, born February 5, 1867. 

2. Harriet Hare Littell, born January 26, 1835; died September 29, 1885; un- 

married. 

3. Thomas Gardiner Littell, D.D., born April 13, 1837; married June 11, 1867, 

Helen Arcadia Harrington. 

Children : 
i. John Stockton Littell, born January 7, 1870. 
ii. Samuel Harrington Littell, born November 6, 1873. 
iii. Elton Gardiner Littell, born June 18, 1877. 
iv. Helen Arcadia Littell, born April 9, 1880. 
V. Mary Morris Littell, born December 29, 1884. 

4. Margaret Morris Littell, born February 21, 1839; died May 5, 1848. 

II. 

Anna Maria Morris, daughter of Thomas W. and Caroline Maria Morris, 
born March 23, 1826; died March 6, 1900; married September 7, 1848, at 
Grace Church, Elk Ridge, Maryland, Francis Key Murray, United States 
Navy;^'* born December 16, 1820; died July 11, 1868; son of Daniel and Mary 
(Dorsey) Murray. 

Children of Francis Key Murray and Anna Maria Morris : 

1. Francis Key Murray, born at Rockburn, May 30, 1849; died Cedar Grove, Vir- 

ginia, March 20, 1850. 

2. Thomas Morris Murray, born Rockburn, July 5, 1851; married July 11, 1900, 

at Pomfret, Eleanor Vinton Clark. 



July 1878, at a few minutes after 6 o'clock A. M. in the 55th year of her age — Her death was caused by 
a cancer of the breast — She was buried on the i8th July at Laurel Hill. 
George Calvert Morris, son of T. W. & C. M. Morris died at his residence 1600 Locust St. Philada., on the 
29 of April 1882 at 3.30 A. M. of phthisis, in the 54th year of his age. He was buried on the 2d of May 
at Laurel Hill. 

Julia Meta, daughter of T. W. & C. M. Morris departed this life at her residence in Spruce St. Philada. on 
the 8th day of June 1857 at half past four o'clock A. M. Her disease was consumption. Her body 
was buried on the loth June at Laurel Hill. 

Apl. 9, /80, Extracts from Mem: in Calvert Bible in possession of Wm. N. Calvert Balto. 

" George Calvert, born Feb. 2, 1768, son of Benedict Calvert & Elizabeth daughter of Charles Calvert, 
married June 11, 1799 to Rosalia Eugenie Stier, born 16 Feb. 1778. 

Caroline Maria their daughter born July 15, 1800. 

George Henry their son born Jany. 2, 1803. 

Julia their daughter born Jan. 31, 1814. " 

i^"F. Key Murray, Midshipman, 29 April. 1836. Passed Midshipman, i July, 1842. Master, 4 Nov- 
ember, 1848. Lieutenant, 24 July, 1849. Commander, 16 July, 1862. Retired list, 8 June, 1867. Captain 
on Retired list, 22 June, 1867. Died 11 July, 1868." 

(General Register of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps, etc. T. H. S. Hamersly, 1882. Page 519.) 



D 



I 

Julia Morris, 
b. Sept. 10, 1857; 
d. Apr. 3, 1S59. 



GEOKGE CALVERT M{J 

son of Thomas Willing and Caroline Maria (Calvert) ] ri 
b. Oct. 16, 1828; 
d. Apr. 29, 1882. 



I 

Ellen Lvle Morris, 
b. Mar. 6, 18.59; 
d. Apr. 1, 1900; 
m. Oct. 26, 1885, 
Pierre Camblos, 
son of Charles and Elizabeth 
(Patton) Camblos. 



I 

Hartman Kuhn Morris, 
b. Dec. 30, 1860; 
d. July 29, 1S61. 



■\ 



Rosalie Morris Camblos, 
b. Aug. 27, 1886; d. Apr. 18, 1891. 

James Lyle Camblos, 
b. Jan 23, 1888. 

Margaret Camblos, 
b. Dec. 2, 1889. 

Ellen Morris Camblos, 
b. Sept. 27, 1896. 



— James Hamilton Cheston , 
b. Oct. .30, 1893. 

— Eugene Morris Cheston, 
b. May 28, 1895. 



1 



11856, ELIZABETH KUHN 

I dau. of Hartman and Ellen (Lyle) Kuluu 

b. Apr. 24, 1833; 
d. Oct. 13, i890. 



t Morris, 

62; 

L892, 

ton, Jr., 

?s and Charlotte 

Jheston. 



I 

Rosalie Morris, 

b. Jan. 17, 1864; 

d. Aug. 5, 1903; 

m. Nov. 10, 1887, 

Robert Winder Johnson, 
son of Lawrence and Mary 
(Winder) Johnson. 



I 

Eugenia Morris, 

b. July 5, 1865; 

m. Oct. 28, 1886, 

Radcliffe Cheston, M.D., 
son of James and Charlotte 
(Steele) Cheston. 



_ Morris Winder Johnson, 
b. July 5, 1889. 

— Lawrence Edward Johnson, 
b. July 9, 1892. 

— Robert Winder Johnson, 
b. Aug. 19, 1894, 

— Rosalie Eugenia Johnson, 
b. Oct. 12, 1900. 



— George Morris Cheston, 
b. Sept. 7, 1887. 

— Radcliffe Cheston, 
b. Feb. 28, 1889. 

— Charles Steele Cheston, 
b. Jan. 3, 1892. 

— Elizabeth Morris Cheston, 

b. June 7, 1894. 

Charlotte Murray Cheston, 
b. Oct. 21, 1897. 

— James Cheston, 
b. Jan. 23, 1899. 

— Morris Cheston, 

b. Sept. 4, 1904. 



ROSALIE MORRISJOHNSON 171 



Children : 

i. Mary Vinton Murray, born May 4, 1900. 
ii. Edward Morris Murray, born August 17, 1902. 
iii. Rosamond Willing Murray, born February 12, 1904. 

3. Edward Murray, born Rockburn, July 20, 1853; died December 10, 1902; mar- 

ried December 7, 1S81, at Burnside, Miriam Eccleston Shoemaker. 

Children: 

i. Anna Willing Murray, born Baltimore, January 29, 1883. 

ii. Augusta Eccleston Murray, born Burnside, June 28, 1884. 
iii. Miriam Shoemaker Murray, born Elibank, December 10, 1885; 

died same, September g, 1886. 
iv. Francis Key Murray, born Elibank, January 17, 1887. 

V. Samuel Shoemaker Murray, born Elibank, March 25, 1891. 

4. Calvert Murray, born Rockburn, March 31, 1855; died October 22, 1861. 

5. Richard Stuart Murray, born Rockburn, September 5, 1856; died August 14, 

1857. 

6. Daniel Maynadier Murray, born Washington, December 8, 1858. 

7. Julia Morris Murray, born Rockburn, September 20, 1862: married at Emmanuel 

Church, Baltimore, April 30, 1891, Henry Johns Bowdoin. 

Children : 

i. Mary Graham Bowdoin, born Rockburn, May 28, 1892. 
ii. Rosalie Calvert Bowdom, born Rockburn, August 5, 1894; died 

September 17, 1895. 
iii. Frances Key Murray Bowdoin, born Baltimore, March 24, 

1896. 
iv. George Edward Bowdoin, born Baltimore, January 23, 1898. 



George Calvert Morris, son of Thomas Willing and Caroline Maria 
Morris, born in Philadelphia, October 16, 1828; died April 29, 1882; married 
July 15, 1856, at St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, Elizabeth Kuhn, born April 
24, 1833; died October 13, 1890; daughter of Hartman and Ellen (Lyle) Kuhn. 

George Calvert Morris was educated at St. James' Hall, near Hagers- 
town, Maryland, and read law in the ofifice of Henry Williams, Esq. He was 
admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, May 31, 1851, and received his degree of 
Bachelor of Laws, July 6, 1852, from the University of Pennsylvania. He was 
elected a vestryman of St. Peter's Church on Easter Monday, April, 1870; 
served on the Board of Managers of Christ Church Hospital from 1872 to 
1881 ; in 1874 became a member of the Standing Committee of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania; was elected a director of 
"The Philadelphia Contributorship " in 1871, succeeding Joseph Swift, and 
served until his death. He died of consumption at his home, No. 1600 Locust 
Street, Philadelphia, and was buried in the family lot in West Laurel Hill 
Cemetery. 

His will was dated April 27, 1880, and proved May 3, 1882. 



172 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Children of George Calvert Morris and Elizabeth Kuhn : ^'■* 

1. Julia Morris, born September lo, 1857; died April 3, 1859. 

2. Ellen Lylf. Morris, born March 6, 1859; died April i, 1900; married October 26, 

1885, Pierre Camblos, born June 13, 1854; son of Charles Camblos and 
Elizabeth Patton. 

Children : 
i. Rosalie Morris Camblos. born August 27, 1886; died April 18, 

1891. 
ii. James Lyle Camblos, born January 23, 1888. 
iii. Margaret Camblos, born December 2, 1889. 
iv. Ellen Morris Camblos, born September 27, 1896. 

3. Hartman Kuhn Morris, born December 30, i860; died July 29, 1861. 

4. Caroline Calvert Morris, born May 19, 1862; married September 21, 1892, James 

Cheston, Jr., born December 20, 1857; son of James Cheston and Char- 
lotte Steele. 

Children : 

i. James Hamilton Cheston, born October 30, 1893. 
ii. Eugene Morris Cheston, born May 28. 1895. 

5. ROSALIE MORRIS, born January 17. 1864; died August 5, 1903; married No- 

vember ID, 1887, Robert Winder Johnson, born May 7, 1854; son of 
Lawrence Johnson and Mary Winder. 

Children : 

i. Morris Winder Johnson, born July 5, 1889. 
ii. Lawrence Edward Johnson, born July 9, 1892. 
iii. Robert Winder Johnson, born August 19, 1894. 
iv. Rosalie Eugenia Johnson, born October 12, 1900. 



19 The entries in the family Bible are as follows : 

Julia, first child of G. C. & E. Morris was born at ^ before 6 o'cl'k : on Thursday evening September loth 

1857 — and was baptized in St. Peter's Church by Dr. W. H. Odenheimer on Thursday afternoon, 

Oct: ist, 1857. 
Ellen Lyle, second child of Geo: C. & Eliz: Morris was born at quarter after 12 o'c'lk on Sunday afternoon 

March 6th, 1859 — and was baptized in St. Peter's Church by Dr. W. H. Odenheimer on Tuesday 

afternoon, April 12th, 1859. 

Julia, first child of G. C. & E. Morris, departed this life on Sunday morng. Ap: 3d, 1859 at 17 min: after 
I o'c'lk: , aged 18 mos: 23 days — Her disease was membranous croup. Her body was buried on 4th, 
April at Laurel Hill. 

Hartman Kuhn, First Son and 3d child of G. C. & E. Morris was born at Philada. on Sunday Dec. 30th, 
i860 at 5 min: before 2 o'c'lk P. M. Was baptized in St. Peter's Church by Rev. Geo: Leeds on 
Tuesday afternoon Feby. 5th, 1861. 

Died at Chestnut Hill (Philada.) of Cholera infantum, Monday July 29th, 1861 at 15 min: after 12 M. 
His body was buried at Laurel Hill on Tuesday afternoon July 30th. 

Caroline Calvert, 4th child of G. C. & Eliz: Morris born Monday morng. May 19, 1862 at ^ past 11 o'clk: — 
She was baptized June 19th at St. Peter's Church by Revd. Geo : Leeds, D. D. 

Rosalie, 5th child of Geo. C. & I''liz. Morris born at Philada. on Sunday evening Jany. 17, 1864 at l^ of 11 
o'clock. She was baptized March 8th at St. Peter's Church by Rev. Geo. Leeds, D.D. 

Eugenia, 6th child & 5th daughter of Geo. C. & Eliz: Morris born at Chestnut Hill, Montgomery Co. near 
Philada. Wednesday July 5th A. D. 1865 at 20 m. after 11 o'c'lk P. M. & was baptized at St. Paul's 
Church, Chestnut Hill, by the Rev. T. A. Harris on Sunday afternoon Aug: 13, A. D. 1865. 



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6. Eugenia Morris, born July 5, 1S65; married October 28, 1886, Radcliffe Cheston. 
M.D., born September 29, 1861; son of James Cheston and Charlotte 
Steele. 

Children : 

i. George Morris Cheston, born September 7, 1887. 
ii. Radcliffe Cheston, born February 28, 1889. 
iii. Charles Steele Cheston, born January 3, 1892. 
iv. Elizabeth Morris Cheston, born June 7, 1894. 
V. Charlotte Murray Cheston, born October 21, 1897. 
vi. James Cheston, born January 2^, 1899. 
vii. Morris Cheston, born September 4, 1904. 



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NEWTON. 



Generation IX. 



Thomas Newton, of the city of Norwich, England, merchant, by Cassan- 
dra, his wife, had a daughter Cassandra, whose engagement of marriage with 
John Till, of London, druggist, led to the execution of certain articles of 
agreement between her father and the contracting parties, dated 17 April, 
1693, by which it was provided that if the said John Till, during his life, did not 
assure to his wife lands and tenements of the clear yearly value of iioo, that 
then his heirs and executors should pay the said Cassandra, within six months 
after his death, the sum of £ 1,000 for her sole use. 

John Till dying intestate the said Cassandra became his administratrix; 
and Thomas Newton also dying intestate, leaving goods in divers dioceses, 
and no administration having been granted thereon, the Archbishop of Can- 
terbury, on mature consideration, issued letters of administration on his estate 
so far as concerned his right and interest in the said articles of agreement, to 
Thomas Fulkes of the parish of Christ Church, London, druggist, 18 January, 
1719/20, 



VIII. Cassandra Newton, married John Till. 
VII. William Till, married Mary Lillingston. 
VI. Mary Till, married Andrew Hamilton. 
V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



II 



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PEETERS. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 



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ROSALIE MORRISJOHNSON 175 



RICHARDSON. 
Generation VIII. 

Samuel Richardson, died in Philadelphia June 10, 1719; married (i) 

Eleanor , who died April 19, 1703; married (2) Elizabeth Webb, widow 

of Robert Webb, their declaration of intention to marry having been made for 
the second time before a monthly meeting of Friends at Philadelphia, Fifth 
month 28th, 1704. 

The sketch of Samuel Richardson, by Samuel W. Pennypacker, Esquire, is 
here given in full : 



SAMUEL RICHARDSON. 
A Councilor, Judge and Legislator of the Olden Time. 

On the 3d of July, 16S6, not quite four years after the arrival of Penn, a bricklayer 
from the island of Jamaica, named Samuel Richardson, bought five thousand eight hundred 
and eighty acres of land in Pennsylvania, and two large lots on the north side of High 
Street (now Market) in the city of Philadelphia, for three hundred and forty pounds. He 
had probably been but a short time a resident of Jamaica, since the certificate he brought 
with him from the Friends' meeting at Spanish Town, to the efTect " y*- he and his wife 
hath walked amongst us as becomes Truth," was only given " after consideration thereofi' 
and Enquiry made." Of his previous life we know nothing, 1 unless it be the following 
incident narrated in Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers: In the year 1670 a squad of soldiers 
arrested George Whitehead, John Scott and Samuel Richardson at a meeting of Friends 
at the Peel in London, and after detaining them about three hours in a guard-room, 
took them before two justices, and charged Richardson with having laid violent hands 
upon one of their muskets. " This was utterly false, and denied by him, for he was 
standing, peaceably as he said, with his Hands in his Pockets." One of the justices 
asked him, "Will you promise to come no more at meeting?" S. R. : "I can promise 
no such thing." Justice: "Will you pay your 5s.?" Richardson: "I do not know that 
I owe thee 5s." A fine of that amount was nevertheless imposed. The sturdy independ- 
ence and passive combativeness manifested upon this occasion formed, as we shall here- 
after see, one of the most prominent characteristics of the emigrant from Jamaica; and 
there are some other circumstances which support the conclusion that he was the per- 
son thus commemorated. Driven, as we may safely suppose, from England to the West 
Indies, and thence to Pennsylvania, by the persecution which followed his sect, he had now 
experienced the hardest bufTetings of adverse fortune, and soon began to bask in the 
sunshine of a quiet but secure prosperity. Surrounded by men of his own creed, he 
throve greatly, and rapidly passed into the successive stages of a merchant and a gentle- 
man. In January, 1689/90, he bought from Penn another lot on High street for the pur- 
pose of erecting quays and wharves, and he now owned all the ground on the north 
side of that street between Second street and the Delaware River. 

In January, 1688, William Bradford, the celebrated pioneer printer, issued proposals 
for the publication of a large " house Bible " by subscription. It was an undertaking 
of momentous magnitude. No similar attempt had yet been made in America; and in order 



1 [His daughter Mary, who married William Hudson, " was born in y« City of London y*' year 1675, 
y» 4 mo 19 day." Hudson Bible Records. Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xvi., p. 108.] 



176 THE ANCESTRY OF 

that the cautious burghers of the new citv should have no soHcitude concerning the un- 
usually large advances required, he gives notice that " Samuell Richardson and Samuell 
Carpenter of Philadelphia arc appointed to take care and be assistant in the laying out of 
the subscription money, and to see that it be imployed to the use intended." A single 
copy of this circular, found in the binding of an old book, has been preserved. 

In 1688, Richardson was elected a member of the Provincial Council,- a body which, 
with the governor or his deputy, then possessed the executive authority, and which, in its 
intercourse with the Assembly, was always excessively dictatorial and often disposed to 
encroach. Quarrels between these two branches of the government were frequent and 
bitter, and doubtless indicated the gradual growth of two parties differing in views and 
interests, one of which favored the Proprietary and the other the people. Soon after 
taking his seat he became embroiled in a controversy that loses none of its interest from 
the quaint and plain language in which it is recorded, and which may have had its origin 
in the fact that he was then a justice of the peace and judge of the county court, a position 
he certainly held a few years later. •■* The Council had ordered a case depending in that 
court to be withdrawn, with the intention of hearing and determining it themselves, and 
Richardson endeavored in vain to have this action rescinded. At the meeting of the 
25th of December, 1688, a debate arose concerning these proceedings, and the deputy gov- 
ernor, John Blackwell, called attention to some remarks previously made by Richardson 
which reflected upon the resolution of the Council, telling him that it was unbecoming and 
ought not to be permitted, and " Reproveing him as haveing taken too great liberty to 
Carry it vnbeseemingly and very provokeinly." He especially resented " ye said Sam^' 
Richardson's fformer declareing at several times y' he did not owne ye Cover"" to be 
Cover''." Richardson replied with some warmth that " he would stand by it and make it 
good — that W"*. Penn could not make a Cover"'; " and this opinion, despite the almost 
unanimous dissent of the member.= present, he maintained with determination, until at 
length the governor moved that he be ordered to withdraw. " I will not withdraw. I 
was not brought hither by thee, and I will not goe out by thy order. I was sent by ye 
people, and thou hast no power to put me out," was the defiant answer. The governor 
then said that he could not suffer Penn's authority to be so questioned and himself so con- 
temned, and, being justified bv the concurrence of all the Council except Arthur Cook, 
who " would be vnderstood to think and speak modestly." he succeeded in having his 
motion adopted. Thereupon Richardson " went fTorth, declaring he Cared not whether 
ever he sat there more againe." After his departure it was resolved that his words and 
carriage had been " vn worthy and vnbecoming; " that he ought to acknowledge his ofTence, 
and promise more respect and heed for the future, before being again permitted to act 
with them; and that he be called inside and admonished; "but he was gon away." 

A few weeks after this occurrence the governor informed the Council that he had 
made preparations to issue a writ for the election of members in the places of Richardson 
and John Eckley, and also presented a paper charging Thomas Lloyd — who had recently 
been chosen one of their number, and who, as keeper of the Great Seal, had refused to 
let it be used in some project then in contemplation — with various crimes, misdemeanors 
and offences. At the meeting Joseph Growden, a member who had been absent before, 
moved that Richardson be admitted to his seat, but was informed by the governor that 
he had been excluded because of his misbehavior. On the 3d of February. 1689, during 
the proceedings, Richardson entered the Council-room and sat down at the table. In 
reply to a question, he stated that he had come to discharge his duty as a member. This 
bold movement was extremely embarrassing to his opponents, and for a time they dis- 
played hesitation and uncertainty. Argument and indignation were alike futile, since, un- 
accompanied by force, they were insufficient to effect his removal; but the happy thought 
finally occurred to the governor to adjourn the Council until the afternoon, and station 



^ [" Pennsylvania Archives," and series, vol. ix., p. 625.] 

' [He was appointed a Justice 12th of nth mo., 1688. Martin's " Bench and Bar," pp. 29, 42 ] 



ROSALIE M ORRISJOHNSON 177 



an officer at the door to prevent another intrusion. This plan was adopted and success- 
fully carried into execution. Upon reassembling, Growden contended that the Council 
had no right to exclude a member who had been duly chosen by the people; and this led 
to an earnest and extended debate, in which, the secretary says, " many intemperate 
speeches and passages happen'd, ffitt to be had in oblivion." Ere a week had elapsed the 
governor presented a charge against Growden, but the fact that three others, though some- 
what hesitatingly, raised their voices in favor of admitting all the members to their seats, 
seemed to indicate that his strength was waning. 

The election under the new writ was held on the 8th of February, 1689, and the peo- 
ple of the county showed the drift of their sympathies by re-electing Richardson. The 
Assembly also interfered in the controversy, and sent a delegation to the governor to 
complain that they were abused through the exclusion of some of the members of Council. 
They were rather bluntly informed that the proceedings of the Council did not concern 
them. In the midst of the conversation upon this and kindred topics, Lloyd, Eckley, and 
Richardson entered the chamber and said they had come to pay their respects to the gov- 
ernor and perform their duties. A resort to the tactics which had been found available 
on the previous occasion became necessary, and the meeting was declared adjourned; 
" upon which several of ye members of ye Council departed. But divers remayned, and 
a great deel of confused noyse and clamor was expressed at and without the doore of ye 
Goveri^'s roome, where ye Councill had sate, w*^^ occasioned persons (passing by in the 
streets) to stand still to heare; which ye Cover'' observing desired ye sayd Tho. Lloyd 
would forbear such Lowd talking, telling him he must not suffer such doings, but would 
take a course to suppresse it and shutte ye Doore." The crisis had now approached, and 
soon afterward Penn recalled Blackwell, authorized the Council to choose a president and 
act as his deputy themselves, and poured oil upon the troubled waters in this wise : " Salute 
me to ye people in Gen^. Pray send for J. Simcock, A. Cook, John Eckley and Sam^i q^^. 
penter, and Lett them dispose T. L., & Sa. Richardson to that Complying temper that may 
tend to that loveing & serious accord y*^ become such a Goverm*." * 

After the departure of Blackwell the Council elected Lloyd their president. Rich- 
ardson resumed his place for the remainder of his term, and in 1695 was returned for a 
further period of two years. ^ During this time Colonel Fletcher made a demand upon the 
authorities of Pennsylvania for her quota of men to defend the more northern provinces 
against the Indians and the French, and Richardson was one of a committee of twelve, 
two from each county, appointed to reply to this requisition. They reported in favor of 
raising five hundred pounds, upon the understanding that it " should not be dipt in blood," 
but be used to " feed the hungrie & cloath the naked." 

He was a judge cf the county court and justice of the peace in 1688 and 1704, and 
for the greater part — probably the whole — of the intervening period. ° In the historic con- 
test with George Keith, the leader of a schism which caused a wide breach among those 
early Friends in Pennsylvania, he bore a conspicuous part. A crew of river-pirates, headed 
by a man named Babbit, stole a sloop from a wharf in Philadelphia and committed a num- 
ber of depredations on the Delaware. Three of the magistrates, all of whom were 
Quakers, issued a warrant for their arrest, and Peter Boss, with some others to assist, 
went out in a boat and effected their capture. Although, as the chronicler informs us. 
Boss and his party had " neither gun, sword or spear." it is fair to presume they did not 
succeed without the use of some force. This gave Keith an opportunity of which he was 
by no means loath to take advantage, and he soon afterward published a circular entitled 
an " Appeal," wherein he twitted his quondam associates with their inconsistency in acting 
as magistrates and encouraging fighting and warfare. Five of the justices, one of whom 



* Joseph Growden, Samuel Carpenter and four others wrote to Penn, 9th of 2d mo., 1699, complaining 
of Geo. Blackwell that " He has excluded Sam. Rich'dson an able & honest man," 
5 [" Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. ix., p. 625. ] 
^ [Ibid., p. 701, ] 

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178 THE ANCESTRY OF 

was Richardson, ordered the arrest of the printers, William Bradford and John McComb, 
and the authors, Keith and Thomas Budd, and the latter were tried, convicted and fined 
five pounds each.i 

These proceedings being bruited abroad and " making a great noise," the six jus- 
tices, including the five above referred to and Anthony Morris, published a manifesto giv- 
ing the reason for their action. Keith, they say, had publicly reviled Thomas Lloyd, the 
president of the Council, by calling him an impudent man and saying his name " would 
stink," and had dared to stigmatize the members of Council and the justices as impudent 
rascals. These things they had patiently endured, as well as his gross revilings of their 
religious society, but in his recent comments upon the arrest of Babbit he not only encour- 
aged sedition and breach of the peace, but aimed a blow at the Proprietary government, 
since if Quakers could not act in judicial capacities the bench must remain vacant. Such 
conduct required their intervention, as well to check him as to discourage others. The 
Friends' yearly meeting, held at Burlington, on the 7lh of July, 1692, disowned Keith, and 
their testimony against him Richardson and many others signed. 

Robert Quarry, judge of the court of admiralty, received his appointment from the 
Crown. He seems to have been personally objectionable, and his authority, being beyond 
the control of the Proprietary, was not submitted to even at that early day without evi- 
dences of discontent and some opposition. An affair occurring in the year 1698 led to a 
conflict of jurisdiction between him and the provincial judges, in which he obtained an 
easy triumph; but his success appears only to have been satisfactory when it had culmin- 
ated in their personal humiliation. John Adams imported a quantity of goods, which, for 
want of a certificate, were seized and given into the custody of the marshal of the admiralty 
court, and although he afterward complied with all the necessary legal forms, Quarry re- 
fused to redeliver them. The governor would not interfere, but Anthony Morris, one of 
the judges of the county court, issued a writ of replevin, in obedience to which the sheriflf 
put Adams in possession of his property. Thereupon, Quarry wrote to England complain- 
ing of what he considered to be an infringement by the Proprietary government upon his 
jurisdiction. On the 27th of July, 1698, Morris, Richardson and James Fox presented to 
the governor and Council a written vindication of the action of the county court, saying it 
was their duty to grant the replevin upon the plaintifif giving bond, as he had done, and 
adding that they had good grounds for believing the sheriff to be as proper a person to 
secure the property " to be forthcoming in Specie, as by the replevin he is Comanded, 
as that they should remain in the hands of Robert Webb, who is no Proper officer, as 
wee Know of, to Keep the Same." More than a year afterward, Penn, who had recently 
arrived in the Province on his second visit, called the attention of the Council to the sub- 
ject, and to the great resentment felt by the superior powers in England at the support said 
to be given in Pennsylvania to piracy and illegal trade. The next day Morris surrendered 
the bond and the inventory of the goods, and resigned his commission. To his statement 
that he had for many years served as a justice to his own great loss and detriment, and 
that in granting the writ he had done what he believed to be right, Penn replied that his 
signing the replevin was a '' verie indeliberate, rash and unwarrantable act." His cup 
of humiliation had not yet, however, been drained. Quarry required his attendance again 
before the Council, and said the goods had been forcibly taken from the marshal, and 
" what came of y™ the S^ Anthonie best knew "; that he could not plead ignorance, " hav- 
ing been so long a Justice y' hee became verie insolent"; and that the security having 
refused payment, and it being unreasonable to burden the king with the cost of a suit, he 



Note i.— " By a warrant signed by Sam. Richardson & Rob. Ewer, Justices, the Sheriff and Constable 
entered the Shop of William Bradford & took all the above written Papers they could find call'd An Appeal, 
and carried the said W. Bradford before the said Justices, and also sent for John McComb, who (as they 
were informed) had disposed of two of said Papers and they not giving an Account where they had them 
were both committed to Prison. Also they sent Robert Ewer and the said officer to search the said 
W. Bradford's House again for more Papers &c., but found none, yet took away a Parcell of Letters, being 
his utensils, which were worth about ten pounds." Postscript to Second Edition of Appeals, i6g2. 



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demanded that the " S'^ Anthonie " should be compelled to refund their value. Morris 
could only reply " y*^ it lookt very hard y* any justice should suffer for an error in judg- 
ment; and further added that if it were to do again, he wold not do it." 

David Lloyd, the attorney in the case, when arguing had been shown the letters- 
patent from the king to the marshal, with the broad seal of the high court of admiralty 
attached. He said, "What is this? Do you think to scare us w* a great box and a little 
Babie? 'Tis true, fine pictures please children, but wee are not to be frightened at such a 
rate." For the use of these words he was expelled from his seat in the Council, and for 
permitting them to be uttered without rebuke the three judges, Morris, Richardson and 
Fox, were summoned to the presence of the governor and reprimanded. Edward Shippen, 
being absent in New England, escaped ihe latter punishment. 

Richardson was elected a member of ihe Assembly for the years 1691, '92, '93, '94, 
'96, '97, '98, 1700, '01, '02, '03, '06, '07, '09.'^ He probably found the leaders of that body 
more congenial associates than had been the members of the Council, and, from the fact 
that he was sent with very unusual frequency to confer with the different governors in 
regard to disputed legislation, it may be presumed that he was a fair representative of the 
views entertained by the majority. Though doubtless identified in opinion with David 
Lloyd, he does not appear to have been so obnoxious to the Proprietary party as many 
of his colleagues, since James Logan, writing to Pcnn in 1704, regrets his absence that 
year, and on another occasion says that the delegation from Philadelphia county, consisting 
of David Lloyd, Joseph Wilcox, Grifiith Jones, Joshua Carpenter, Francis Rawle, John 
Roberts, Robert Jones and Samuel Richardson, were " all bad but the last." 

On the 20th of October, 1703, a dispute arose concerning the power of the Assem- 
bly over its own adjournment — a question long and warmly debated before — which illus- 
trates in a rather amusing way the futile attem.pts frequently made by the governors and 
their Council to exercise control. A messenger having demanded the attendance of the 
whole House of Representatives forthwith to consult about adjournment, they, being en- 
gaged in closing the business of the session, sent Joseph Growden, Isaac Norris, Joseph 
Wilcox, Nicholas Wain and Samuel Richardson to inform the Council that they had con- 
cluded to adjourn until the first day of the next Third month. The president of the Council 
objected to the time, and denied their right to determine it, and an argument having en- 
sued without convincing either party, the delegation withdrew. The Council then unan- 
imously resolved to prorogue the Assembly immediately, and to two members of the 
latter body, who came a few hours afterward with the information of its adjournment to 
the day fixed, the president stated " that ye Council had Prorogued ye Assembly to ye said 
first day of ye said Third month, and desired ye said members to acquaint ye house of ye 
same." The order is solemnly recorded in the minutes as follows : " Accordingly ye As- 
sembly is hereby prorogued." To prorogue them until the day to which they themselves 
had already adjourned was certainly an ingenious method of insuring their compliance. 

On the loth of December, 1706, the Assembly sent Richardson and Joshua Hoopes 
on a message to the governor, who, upon their return, reported that his secretary, James 
Logan, had affronted them, asking one of them " whether he was not ashamed to look, 
the said James Logan, in the face." The wrath of the Assembly kindled immediately. 
They directed Logan to be placed in custody, that he might answer at the bar of the 
House, and sent word to the governor that since he had promised them free access to 
his person, his own honor was involved; that they resented the abuse as a breach of 
privilege; and that they expected full satisfaction and the prevention of similar indignities 
for the future. The governor sent for Logan, who explained that " all that past was a 
jocular expression or two to S. Richardson, ivlw used always to take a great freedom that way 
himself. & that he believed he never resented it as an affront"; and Richardson, being sum- 
moned, declared that he was not at all offended. 

For many years after his arrival in Pennsylvania, Richardson lived upon a planta- 



'' [" Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series, vol. ix., pp. 715, 716, 717. ] 



i8o THE ANCESTRY OF 

tion of five hundred acres near Germantown, and probably superintended the cultivation of 
such portions of it as were cleared. There he had horses, cattle and sheep. The Friends' 
records tell us that several grandchildren v\'ere born in this house, and from the account 
book of Francis Daniel Pastorius we learn that when they grew older they were sent to 
school at the moderate rate of fourpence per week. On the 19th of April, 1703, however, 
Ellinor, his wife, died, and sometime afterward, probably in the early part of the year 
1705, he removed to the city.** He married again, and lived in a house somewhere near the 
intersection of Third and Chestnut streets, which contained a front room and kitchen on 
the first floor, two chambers on the second floor, and a garret. 

In the same year he was unanimously elected one of the aldermen of the city, and 
this position he held thereafter until his death. ^ In December of that year he, Griffith 
Jones and John Jones, by order of the Town Council, bought a set of brass weights for 
the sum of twelve pounds twelve shillings; and the poverty of the new city may be inferred 
from the fact that they gave their individual notes, and took in exchange an obligation 
of the corporation, which, though often presented for settlement, was not finally disposed 
of until five years afterwards. In May, 1710. the Town Council determined to build a new 
market-house for the use of the butchers, and they raised the necessary funds by individual 
subscriptions of money and goods. Richardson was among the fourteen heaviest subscrib- 
ers at five pounds each, and after its completion in August, 1713, was appointed one of the 
clerks of the market to collect the rents, etc., on a commission of ten per cent. The first 
moneys received were applied to the paj^ment of an old indebtedness to Edward Shippen 
for funds used " in Treating our present Governor at his fifirst arrival." The meeting of 
the Town Council on the ist of October, 1717, was the last he attended. 

He died June loth, 1719, at an advanced age, and left a large estate. Like many 
others of the early Friends, he was a slave-holder, and among the rest of his property were 
the following negroes: viz., Angola, Jack, Jack's wife, and Diana. His wardrobe consisted 
of a new coat with plate buttons, cloth coat and breeches, loose cloth coat and drugget 
waistcoat, old cloak, old large coat and " Round robin," two fustian frocks and breeches, 
two flannel waistcoats, three pair of old stockings, two hats, linen shirts, leather waistcoat, 
and breeches, six neck-cloths, three handkerchiefs, one pair of new and two pair of old 
shoes. 

He had four children. Joseph, the only son, married in 1696, Elizabeth, daughter 
of John Bevan,^** and from about the year 1713 lived at Olethgo on the Perkiomen creek, 
in Providence township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county. This marriage was 
preceded by a carefully drawn settlement, in which the father of the groom entailed upon 
him the plantation of five hundred acres near Germantown, and the father of the bride gave 
her a marriage portion of two hundred pounds. Of the three daughters, Mary, the eldest, 
married William Hudson, one of the wealthiest of the pioneer merchants of Philadelphia, 
mayor of the city in 1725, and a relative of Henry Hudson, the navigator; Ann, married 
Edward Lane, of Providence township, Philadelphia county, and after his death Edmund 
Cartledge of Conestoga in Lancaster county; and Elizabeth married Abraham Bickley, 
also a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia. Among their descendants are many of the most 
noted families of the eastern counties of Pennsylvania. 

The will of Samuel Richardson, of the city of Philadelphia, he being aged 
and infirm in body, dated Jtme 6, 1719, proved June 13, 1719, bequeathed to his 



^ [The Abington monthly meeting on 23d of 12th mo., 1701, records: " Samuel Richardson having 
desired that ffriends should keep a meeting of worship at his house, and this meeting having answered his 
request have ordered also that friends do meet at his house on ye s"* si.xth day m every month, considering ye 
weakness of his wife." ] 

9 [ " Pennsylvania Archives," 2nd series., vol. ix., p. 734. ] 

10 John Sevan's wife was Barbara Aubrey, aunt of the William Aubrey who married Letitia Penn, and 
a descendant of Sir Reginald Aubrey, one of the Norman conquerors of Wales. 



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wife Elizabeth for life the following ground rents; three pounds, one shil- 
ling and eight pence payable from Hugh Lowdon; three pounds yearly due 
from Abraham Bickley ; five pounds seven shillings and three pence yearly from 
James Jacob ; two pounds yearly from Thomas Tresse ; one pound yearly rent 
on account of the house Mary Pain, widow, then lived in, and thirty shillings 
yearly from Stephen Stapler and Mary Appleton. 

He devised to his son-in-law William Hudson, of Philadelphia, tanner, the 
yearly ground rents of one pound ten shillings and eight pence due from John 
Jones ; three pounds and twelve shillings due from James Tutthill ; one pound 
and sixteen shillings due from Anthony Morris for the White Hart ; three 
pounds and twelve shillings from Hannah England ; one pound and sixteen shil- 
lings from Pentacost Teague ; three pounds twelve shillings from Nathaniel 
Edgcome and two pounds five shillings from Mary Cooke, all which sums were 
yearly ground rents arising from certain lots on the north side of High Street, 
which William Hudson should receive during the life of the testator's 
daughter-in-law Elizabeth Richardson, after whose decease all the said ground 
rents were devised to the testator's son Joseph Richardson. 

To William Hudson he bequeathed during the life of the said Elizabeth 
Richardson, two shillings and six pence yearly, due from Randal Spakeman. 
To his son Joseph Richardson he left his great copper and great frying pan. 
To aforesaid Elizabeth Richardson his great silver tankard. 

His daughter Ann Cartlidge was to receive twenty pounds, and each of 
her children by Edward Lane, namely, William, Samuel, James, Eleanor, Eliza- 
beth and Anne, five pounds ; to her three children by Edward Cartlidge, eight 
pounds each. To his son Joseph's seven children, viz. : Aubrey, Edward, 
Richard, William, Eleanor, Barbara and Elizabeth, he devised ten pounds each. 
His great-granddaughter Hannah Cockfield, daughter of Joshua Cockfield, 
was to receive four pounds. All the aforesaid legacies were to be paid by his 
executors after his widow's decease, out of his estate on the bank of the Dela- 
ware in Philadelphia, as said legatees should attain the age of twenty years, or 
upon the day of their marriage. 

To his son-in-law William Hudson he devised the front house and lot 
where Thomas Tresse then lived, he paying five pounds to each of his, the said 
William's, eight children, viz., Samuel, William, John, Mary, EHzabeth, Susan- 
nah, Hannah and Rachel. 

To his wife he devised his least silver tankard, one silver porringer, one 
silver spoon, his warming pan and one-half of the household goods. He 
bequeathed to his grandsons, Samuel and John Richardson, all his wearing 
apparel, and to his grandson Samuel Richardson, one-half of his household 
goods. To his daughter Ann Cartlidge, after his wife's decease, the negro 
woman Diana. 

William Hudson and the said William's son, Samuel Hudson, were ap- 
pointed executors, and were each to receive five pounds. 

Witnessed by Abram Bickley, John Ogden and Jon. Cadwalader. (Phila- 
delphia Wills, Liber A, folio 539.) 



i82 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Children of Samuel and Eleanor Richardson : 

MARY RICHARDSON, born in London, Fourth month 19, 1673; died Twelfth 
month 16, 1708/9; 1^ married Twelfth month 28, 1688, William Hudson. 

Joseph Richardson, married Fourth month 30, 1696, Elizabeth Bevan.12 

Elizabeth Richardson, died Third month 15, 1714; married before First month 
31, 1701, Abraham Bickley.i^ 

Ann Richardson, married (i) 1694, Edward Lane, their marriage being reported 
First month 26, at Abington meeting; married (2) Edward CartHdge. 



Vn. Mary Richardson, married William Hudson. 
VL William Hudson, married Jane Evans. 
V. Elizabeth Hudson, married Anthony Morris. 
IV. Luke Morris, married Ann Willing. 
III. Thomas W^illing Morris, married Caroline 

Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



\ 



1* Hudson Bible Records. — Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xvi., p. 108. 

"Joseph Richardson, son of Samuel and Eleanor, received a certificate from Abington Meeting, 3, 25, 
1696, to marry Elizabeth Bevan. They were married 4, 30, i6g6 at Merion Meeting. 

'•^ Isaac Ashton, of Philadelphia, cooper, by will dated 6, 13, 1699, and proved September i, 1699, leaves 
his estate to his intended wife Elizabeth Richardson, who is made executrix with " her brother William Hudson 
of Philadelphia, tanner." (Philadelphia Wills, Liber A, folio 468.) 

The marriage of Abraham Bickley, of Burlington, and Elizabeth Richardson, was reported to have been 
accomplished, at a meeting held i, 31, 1701 (Abington Meeting Records). Their children are not mentioned 

in their grandfather's will. Abraham Bickley married (2) Dorothy . His will, in which he is said to 

be of Burlington, New Jersey, is recorded in Philadelphia, Liber D, folio 360. 



ROSALIE MORRISJOHNSON 183 



RUBENS. 
Generation XII, 
See Stier Record. 

RYSER. 

Generation IX. 

See Stier Record. 

SCHILDER. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 



i84 THE ANCESTRY OF 



SCHRACK. 

Generation VL 

John Jacob Schrack, born in Germany 1679; <^li^tl February 22, 1741/2;^ 

married in 171 1, Eva Rosina , born in Ulm, Germany, 1688; buried at 

the IVappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1756.^ They came 
to Pennsylvania in 1 71 7 and settled west of the Perkiomen Creek, in Provi- 
dence Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County. He was a Lu- 
theran, and joined with others of the New Hanover, Providence and Philadel- 
phia congregations, in 1733, in commending persons sent to Europe to collect 
money to l)uild churches in Pennsylvania, and 1735-39, in urging the ecclesias- 
tical authorities in Germany to send a suitable preacher to serve the congre- 
gations. Muhlenberg came in response to these petitions, landing in Philadel- 
phia, on Thursday, November 25, 1742. The following Sunday he preached at 
New Hanover, and on Monday, the 29th, he writes in his diary : " Three elders 
of the congregation accompanied me nine miles down to New Providence, for 
the purpose of conferring with the deacons here, and stopped with the widow 
Schrack, whose husband, a deacon, and one of those who often petitioned the 
Rev. Mr. Ziegenhagen for a minister, died the past summer." 

John Jacob Schrack was naturalized in the year 1729. He kept a public 
house, called the Trappe, which gave the name to the village, retained to the 
present day ; his widow, and afterward his sons, continued the business. The 
house was widely known.^ 

Children of John Jacob and Eva Rosina Schrack : * 

1. Johannes Joseph Schrack, born October 9, 1712; baptized in Germany. 

2. Philip Schrack, born January 21, 1714; baptized in Germany: married Maria 

(last name unknown). 

3. Eva Barbara Schrack. born May i, 1716: baptized in Germany; married October 

9- 1735. Johan Georg Crosman. 

4. ANNA MARIA SABINA SCHRACK, born October 26, 1717; baptized January 

12, 1718; married December 11, 1740, Johan Adam Simon Kuhn. 



1 By his will, dated January 8, 1741/2, proved March 25, 1742, " John Jacob Scrack of Provid" Towni' 
in the Counc Of Philad'' Although Sick and weak in body," etc., orders debts to be paid and "that the 
funerals of my body be only such as Shall beseem a Christian, at the disscretion of my loving wife and 
overseers; " the residue of his estate to be at the disposal of his wife Eve, to maintain his children, who are 
not named. Wife Eve appointed executor and son John overseer. Witnessed by Samuel Lane, Herman 
Indehaven and Roger North. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber F, folio 291.) 

The inventory, made March 11, 1741/ 2, by Owen Evans and Samuel Lane, reads, " Estate of John 
Jacob Scharack of Providence Towni' in Philad^ Coun? Deceas^ 22'! day of ffebby last past." 

2 The burial records of the Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church, Trappe, Montgomery County, 
Pennsylvania, contain the following: " Euphrosina, widow of Johan Jacob Schrack born in Ulm, married 
31 years, and a widow 14 years, was buried in Augustus ground 21 October 1756, aged 68 years and 6 months." 

'This sketch is taken largely from " The Perkiomen Region," vol. i., p. 58. 

*The dates of birth, marriage and death, here given, are from the records of the Augustus Evangelical 
Lutheran Church, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 



ROSALIEMORRIS JOHNSON 185 

5. JoHANN Jacob Sciirack. born April 8, 1724: married March 12, 1750, Elizabeth 

Muhlhanin. 

6. Catharine Schrack, born July 17, 1726; married June 20, 175.3, Rev. Lucas Rauss. 

7. Christian Schrack, born October 4. 1727. 

8. Elizabeth Schrack, born April 13, 1729. 

9. JoHANN Nicholas Schrack, born June 2^^, 1730. 

The will of Eva Rosina Schrack, dated August 22, 1754, proved Novem- 
ber 4, 1756, recites at large the will of her deceased husband, John Jacob 
Schrack; makes the declaration that it would have been "quite Impossible to 
me the said Eva Rosina Schrack To Pay the Just Debts & to Maintain my Self 
& my Small Children to bring them up to Maturity And to Preserve the Real 
Estate Without the Constant Help & Assistance of My Eldest beloved Son John 
Schrack Who Was by the Testator &; by me Desired & ordered to Menage 
and Improve the whole Estate Which he hath Done faithfull & Honestly about 
thirteen Years to this Day in Spending the flower of his strength & best Time 
to perform his fathers Will & my Request Insomuch that I have been Enabled 
Next to God to Maintain my Self to Educate my Younger Children & Espe- 
cially to Distribute & Give out of the whole Estate to the Two Younger Mer- 
ried Daughters of the Testator in Goods & Effects As followeth," to daughter 
Elizabeth, £30; Catharine, £40; "the first Daughter Eva had Received" £38, 
and the second daughter Mary, £40, " When the Father Was Yet alive." 

In consideration of the above the btilk of the real estate and stock is de- 
vised to the eldest son, John Schrack, who is to pay to the youngest son, John 
Nicholas Schrack, £15, and £3 to the treasurer of the Augustus Church in 
Providence. The following children are also mentioned : Philip, Jacob, Chris- 
tian, Eva, Mary, Catharine, Elizabeth and John Nicholas. Eldest son, John 
Schrack, executor. Witnessed by Samuel Lane, Matthias Heinzelman and 
Nicholas Bunn, (Philadelphia Wills, Liber K, folio 475.) 



V. Anna Maria Sabina Schrack, married Adam Simon Kuhn. 
IV. Adam Kuhn, married Elizabeth (Hartman) Markoe. 
III. Hartman Kuhn, married Ellen Lyle. 

II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



SCHRYNMAECKERS. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 



i86 THE ANCESTRY OF 



SHIPPEN. 

Generation IX. 

William Shippen is believed to have been born about the year 1600, at 
Hillam, a hamlet in the parish of Monk Fryston, in the West Riding of York- 
shire, England, where the family is said to have been seated since the thir- 
teenth century.^ Removing to Methley, a village about seven miles to the 
west of Monk Fryston, he married, July 16, 1626, Mary Nunes, who was bap- 
tized at Methley, October 11, 1592, and buried at the same place, May 25, 1672; 
daughter of John Nunes and EfTam Crosfeld, of Methley (who were married in 
that village October 17, 1584.) 

William Shippen spent his declining years with his son William, rector of 
Stockport, Cheshire, where he died in 1681.-' 

Children of William Shippen and Mary Nunes : 

1. Robert Shippen, baptized May 20, 1627; died young. 

2. Mary Shippen, baptized June 24, 1629; married 1663, William Chapman, of the 

neighboring town of Normanton. 

3. Ann Shippen, baptized November 21, 1630; died young. 

4. Dorathe Shippen, baptized February 9. 1631; died young. 

5. William Shippen, baptized July 2, 1637; died 1693; married . 

6. EDWARD SHIPPEN, baptized March 5, 1639; died in Philadelphia, October 2, 

1712; married (i) Elizabeth Lybrand; (2) Rebecca (Howard) Richard- 
son; (3) Esther (Wilcox) James. 



VIIL 

William Shippen, son of William and Mary Shippen, baptized July 2, 
1637; died 1693; buried under the chancel of Stockport Church, Cheshire. 
He studied and graduated at University College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 
1656 and his M.A. in 1659; afterwards Proctor of the University, 1664, and at 
length rector of Stockport, in Cheshire.* 



iWalter Bubwith, son of Thomas Bubwith of Bubwith Hall, Old Pomfret, Yorkshire, married Ellen, 
daughter of John Watkins, and had Richard Bubwith who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wakefield, 
and had Dorothy Bubwith who married John Shippen of Hyllom, Yorkshire, and had Edward Shippen, the 
father of William Shippen who married Frances and had Edward Shippen, born Hilham, Yorkshire 1639, 
emigrated to Boston 1668, married Elizabeth Lybrand of Boston who died in Boston October 25, 1688. 
(MSS. of the late Charles R. Hildeburn, Esquire, of Philadelphia.) 

2 "The English Ancestors of the Shippen Family and Edward Shippen, of Philadelphia," by Thomas 
Willing Balch, in Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxviii., p. 385, is here freely quoted. 

^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxviii., p. 389. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 187 



Children of William Shippen : 

1. Edward Shippen, physician, born 1671; M.A. and M.D., Brasenose College, 

Oxford. 

2. William Shippen, born 1673; died 1743; educated at Westminster and Brasenose 

College, Oxford; was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1693; 
sat in five parliaments as the incorruptible leader of the Jacobites from 
1716 until his death. In his speeches he spoke his mind clearly and 
fearlessly, and to such purpose that on reflecting on the policy of the 
King, he was confined in the Tower of London. William Shippen re- 
ceived the titles of "Honest Will Shippen " and " Downright Shippen." * 

3. Robert Shippen, born 1675; died November 24, 1745; buried in Brasenose Chapel, 

where a bust of him may be seen. Received his degree of M.A. July 22, 
1693; was Fellow of Brasenose and Professor of Music at Gresham Col- 
lege; became Principal of Brasenose in 1710, and in 1718, Vice-Chancel- 
lor of Oxford University. 

4. John Shippen, baptized at Stockport, July 5, 1678; died 1747; unmarried; buried 

in St. Andrew's, Holborn, London; was a merchant in Spain and British 
Consul at Lisbon. 

5. Anne Shippen, married and left issue. ^ 



Edward Shippen, son of William and Mary Shippen, baptized at Methley, 
in Yorkshire, England, March 5, 1639; died in Philadelphia, October 2, 1712; 
married (i) in 1671, Elizabeth Lybrand, of Boston, who died in that city, 
" about 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, Oct. 25, 1688." In Philadelphia 
Friends' Meeting, on Seventh month 4, 1689, were married " Edward Shippen, 
of Boston, New England, merchant and Rebecca Richardson, late of New 
York, widow of Francis Richardson, merchant deceased the 15th. of 5mo. 



^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxiv., p. 258, gives the following quotations regarding his characteristics : 

" Mr. Shippen in the course of the debate said the second paragraph of the King's speech seemed 
rather to be calculated for the meridian of Germany than for Great Britain ; and it was a great misfortune 
that the king was a stranger to our language and constitution. Mr. Lechmere affirmed this was a scandalous 
invective against the king's person and government, and moved that he who uttered it should be sent to the 
Tower. Mr. Shippen refusing to retract or e.xcuse what he had said, was voted to the Tower by a grea.t 
majority." (" Smollett's History of England," chapter ii., George I.) 

" Shippen upbraided Walpole terribly in the debate. ... He spoke long and very well— the better 
for being in the right." ("Diary of Lady Cowper," p. 160; May 5, 1720.) 

" Some are corrupt," Sir Robert Walpole said ; " but 1 will tell you of one who is not ; Shippen is not." 
(" Walpoliana," vol. i., p. 38.) 

"The Prince of Wales, to justify his satisfaction with a speech which the sturdy old Jacobite had made, 
sent him ;^i,ooo by General Churchill, Groom to his Bedchamber. Shippen refused it." ("Century of 
Anecdote," p. iii, " Chandos Classics.") 

"Mr. Shippen was calm, intrepid, shrewd, and sarcastic." ("Smollett's History of England," 

chapter ii., George H.) 

Pope says : 

" I love to pour out all myself, as plain 

As downright Shippen, or as old Montaigne : 

In them, as certain to be loved as seen, 

The soul stood forth, nor kept a thought within." 

Upon his silver cup, weighing over thirteen pounds, was inscribed, "A Legacy from the Duke of 

Buckingham & Normandy to the worthy Mr. Shippen." 

^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxviii., p. 390. 



i88 THEANCESTRYOF 

1688, at the house of Walter Newbery in Rhode Island. Witnesses Robert 
Hodgson, Henry Bull, Walter Clark, John Dungan and 58 others." ® Rebecca 
Richardson was the daughter of John Howard, of Yorkshire, England ; she 
died in Philadelphia, February 26, 1704/5.'^ Edward Shippen married (3) in 
Philadelphia, Esther James, born in Bristol, England, August 30, 1673 ! died 
in Philadelphia, August 7, 1724; widow of Philip James, of Philadelphia, and 
daughter of Barnabas and Sarah Wilcox. 

In 1668 Edward Shippen removed from England to Boston, Massachu- 
setts, and engaged in mercantile pursuits with much success.^ In 1669 he was 
a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. ° It 
is probable that his first marriage, to a Quakeress, led him to become a 
Friend, and as a member of this Society he experienced severe persecution, 
being twice " publickly whipped " in 1677. Subjected to great annoyance in 
various ways, Edward Shippen finally, about 1693/4, decided to remove within 
the more liberally governed province of Pennsylvania.^" 

It seems to have taken him about a year to perfect the disposal of his 
estate in Boston, estimated to be worth at least ten thousand pounds sterling, 
a considerable sum in those days, and transfer it to Philadelphia.^^ In this 
latter city his wealth, his fine personal appearance, his house on Second 
Street,^- styled " a Princely mansion," his talents, and his high character, 
speedily obtained for him such position and influence that on July 9, 1695, he 



*> Marriage records of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, beginning in 1672. 

' Isaac Norris writing to Jonathan Dickinson from Philadelphia, nth of Third month, 1705, says : " Thy 
boys are very well, with our families and friends generally, tho' Rebekah Shippen was taken suddenly with a 
kind of dead palsy, and so continued speechless about five days, and died about two weeks since. Abra. 
Carpenter buried his wife in about twenty-four hours, [of] the like distemper." (" Memoirs of the Historical 
Society of Pennsylvania," vol. x., p. 22.) 

8 On September 12, 1687, Edward Shippen presented a petition, upon consideration of which this order 
was made : " That whereas, Edward Shippen, of Boston, merchant, hath, by his petition set forth that, for 
many years past, he and those under whom he claims, have been possessed of a certain house and ground 
wherein he now liveth ; one other house and ground in the occupation of Thomas Savage ; one other house 
and ground, in the occupation of George Dawson ; several warehouses and grounds belonging thereto ; and 
about four acres of ground in pasture ; all within the town of Boston ; and moreover, petitions to have them 
confirmed to him ; whereupon, the Governor, Sir Edmund Andross, ordered them to be surveyed, so that 
a patent for them may be granted unto him." Mr. Shippen owned, besides, several wharves, somewhere 
near Faneuil Hall, known in the last century as Shippen's Wharves. (Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. (47).) 

'' Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. (46). This work has been largely drawn upon for this sketch. 

1" " He did not quit Boston without erecting a memorial on a green," near to "a pair of gallows, 
where several of our friends had suffered death for the truth, and were thrown into a hole." He asked leave 
of the magistrates " to erect some more lasting monument there, but they were not willing." (Keith, p. (47).) 

^^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. .x.xviii., p. 385. 

•2 Edward Shippen's house stood on the west side of Second street, north of Spruce. His garden, 
inclosing it on both sides, extended to Laurel or Levant street. William Penn, on his second visit, passed a 
month at the house, and not long afterwards Lord Cornbury lodged and dined there. Here he had his great 
and famous orchard. In the lawn before the house, descending to the Dock Creek, reposed his herd of 
tranquil deer. His country house stood near the present southwest corner of South and Broad streets, and 
his property stretched along the south side of the old city from Front street to about Sixteenth, Shippen (now 
Bainbridge) street, being opened through it, and Juniper street for several squares below South being called 
Shippen's Lane. {Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. iv., p. 49 ; vol. xxiv., p. 258 ; Keith, p. (48).) 

William Penn wrote to James Logan, Second month i, 1703 : " See if the town would be so kind to 
build me a pretty box like Ed. Shippen's, upon any of my lots in town or liberty land." (" Penn and Logan 
Correspondence," vol. i., p. 181.) 



R O S A L I E M O R R I S J O H N S O N 189 



was elected Speaker of the Assembly. " In 1696 he was chosen as one of the 
Provincial Council by popular vote, and was returned every year at the fresh 
elections " ; ^^ was Justice of the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 
1697/8 and in 1700," being appointed Presiding- Justice of these courts,^^ 
February 12, 1697/8; also Associate Justice of the Supreme Court about 
1699.1^ In 1700 Edward Shippen was called to the Council by Penn,i^ and w^as 
named as the first mayor of the city of Philadelphia under Penn's Charter of 
October 25, lyoi.^^ He was also "the first named in the Commission issued 
by the Proprietary, October 28, 1701, to the new Provincial Council, no longer 
an elective body." ^^ "Edward Shippen was President of the Council 1702-04, 
and on the death of Penn's Deputy, Hamilton of New Jersey, May 1703, 
became the head of the government and continued so until the arrival of John 
Evans in December." ^'^ 

He was appointed Treasurer of Philadelphia, June i, 1705,-' remained a 
member of the Commission of Property," and continued to advise upon public 
alTairs until the year of his death, as shown by Penn's letter. Fifth month 24, 
1712, where Edward Shippen is addressed in connection with Isaac Norris, 
Thomas Story and others.-^ 

The will of Edward Shippen, of Philadelphia, merchant, dated August 2, 
1712, proved August 5, 1712, he "being under some present indisposition of 
body," bequeathed to his wife Esther four hundred pounds in cash, and the 
interest from another like sum which has been loaned to William Trent, mer- 
chant ; all the household goods belonging to the two front low rooms of his 
mansion house, and other goods she might choose to the value of one hundred 
and fifty pounds, which sum was to include the negro woman Black Betty or 
Bess, belonging to his wife, and valued at twenty pounds ; plate to the value of 
seventy-two pounds ; the white horse and saddle and furniture ; her choice of 
one of his cows, with all the hay in the stable ; and the Bible that formerly 
belonged to Philip James. 

To Thomas Story and Samuel Preston, in trust, the house and lot where 
he then lived, containing in breadth one hundred and fifty feet, with the orchard 
and garden in the said lot, extending to Third Street ; his warehouse or boult- 
ing house and land fronting his said dwelling, containing in breadth fifty-seven 
feet and extending from Dock to Second Street ; a quantity of land which was to 
be set ofif from the westerly end of his plantation hereinafter mentioned. The 
said real estate to be held for the use of his wife during her life and after her 
decease for the maintenance of his son William, until he was of age, and then to 
his said son. 

He directed that the rents and profits from his house and lot on the west 
side of Front Street, in the possession of his son Edward, should go towards the 



13" Provincial Councillors," p. (47). 

" Martin's " Bench and Bar," pp. 29, 40, 51 ; 15 jbid., pp. 40, 51 ; !« Ibid., p. 19. 

17 Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. {47) ; '* Ibid., p. (47) ; Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 94. 

19 "Provincial Councillors," p. (48) ; *" Ibid. 

*i Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 102 ; ^^ Ibid., p. 172. 



23 



" Provincial Councillors," p, (48). 



190 THE ANCESTRY OF 

maintenance of his son William, until the death of his wife Esther or son Wil- 
liam, or until William was aged fourteen years, and after such time the said 
property to become part of the residuary estate. If his son William were 
apprenticed, his executors were to pay his wife Esther fifty pounds to put him 
to such trade and for his clothing-. To his son William he also bequeathed the 
sum of eight hundred pounds when of age, for the securing of which sum he 
devised the following properties to his wife until the amount should be raised : 
the present dwelling of his son Edward ; a lot lately purchased of John Budd ; 
a house and about two hundred and sixty acres adjoining the southernmost 
bound of the city, the fifty acre part of the same before devised excepted ; also 
two timber messuages on the west side of Second Street, between the dwelling 
houses of Thomas Story and Samuel Powel. 

To his wife's son, Philip James, the negro boy Tankard ; one silver tankard 
that was his father's, marked P. E. I. ; his twO silver porringers marked 
W. E. F. ; six silver spoons weighing about two ounces each, marked W. E. F., 
all which his wife Esther is to have the use of until Philip is of age. 

To each of the children of his sons Edward and Joseph he bequeathed 
when they were of age, seventy-five pounds. To his son Edward Shippen he 
devised all his messuages and lands " lying and being in the town of Hilham 
in the county of York in the Kingdom of Great Brittain or elsewhere in the 
said county." 

To Thomas Story and Samuel Preston he devised the sum of one hundred 
and fifty pounds. To his sons Edward and Joseph he bequeathed the residue 
of his estate, real and personal, and appointed them his executors. Witnessed 
by Nehemiah Allen, Samuel Powel and Israel Pemberton. 

By a codicil made the loth of Seventh month, 171 2, he bequeathed to 
Thomas Story and Samuel Preston ten pounds for their care and pain in the 
trust before mentioned. Witnessed by Nehemiah Allen and Samuel Powel. 
(Philadelphia Wills, Liber C, folio 303.) 

Children of Edward Shippen and Elizabeth Lybrand : 

1. Frances Shippen, born February 2, 1672; died April 9, 1673. 

2. Edward Shippen, born October 2, 1674; died November 2, 1674. 

3. William Shippen, born October 4. 1675; died 1676. 

4. Elizabeth Shippen, born August 21, 1676; died August 15, 1688. 

5. Edward Shippen, born December 10, 1677/8; died December 26, 1712; married 

Anna Francina Vanderhevden.-* 

6. JOSEPH SHIPPEN, born February 28, 1678/9; died June, 1741; married (i) 

July 28, 1702. Abigail Gross: (2) May 4, 1721, Rose McWilliams, widow. 



2* Edward Shippen, son of Edward and Elizabeth (lA-brand) Shippen, was born in Boston, and died 
in T'liiladelphia. His wife, Anna Francina Vanderspeyden , was daughter of Mathias Vanderspeyden and 
Anna Margaretta Herman of Bohemia Manor, Maryland. She married (2) Colonel Hynson, of Maryland. 

Children : 

1. Mary Shippen, buried Philadelphia September 11, 1710. 

2. Margaret Shippen, buried Christ Church, Philadelphia, October, 1762 ; married October 20, 1734, 

John Jekyll, Collector of the Port of Boston, a relative of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of 
the Rolls and Secretary of State to Queen Anne. He died in Boston, March i, 1741. 



ROSALIEMORRISJOHNSON 191 



7. Mary Shippen, born May 6, i68t; died August 30, 1688. 

8. Ann Shippen, born June 17, 1684; died without issue December 6, 1712; married 

July 10, 1706,25 Thomas Story, the first Recorder of the city of Philadel- 
phia, Master of the Rolls. Keeper of the Great Seal, a member of the 
Provincial Council, and of the Commission of Property. In 1706 he was 
chosen Mayor, and on refusing to serve, was fined £20 by the Council. 
After his wife's death. Thomas Story returned to England, where he 
died in 1743.26 

Child of Edward Shippen and Rebecca (Howard) Richardson: 

9. Elizabeth Shippen, born October 30, 1691; died August 18, 1692. 

Children of Edward Shippen and Esther (Wilcox) James : 

10. John Shippen, died in infancy. 

11. William Shippen, born October 3, 1708; died in Philadelphia February 3, 1730/1; 

unmarried. 

VII. 

Joseph Shippen, son of Edward Shippen and Elizabeth Lybrand, born 
in Boston, February 28, 1678/9; died in Germantown, June, 1741 ; married (i) 
July 28, 1702, in Boston, Abigail Gross,-^ who died in Philadelphia, June 28, 
1716; daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Gross; married (2) Christ Church, 
May 4, 1721, Rose McWilliams, born Burlington, New Jersey, March 13, 
1680/1 ; daughter of Thomas Budd, one of the proprietaries of West New Jer- 
sey; she was first married to Charles Plumley, who died in Philadelphia in 
1708. There was no issue by the second marriage. 

Joseph Shippen removed to Philadelphia from Boston in 1704, and later 
to Germantown, where he resided in the house since known as the " Button- 
wood Tavern."-- He was among the men of science of his day, and in 1727 
joined Dr. Franklin in founding the Junto, " for mutual information and public 
good." The Junto was the forerunner of the American Philosophical Society, 



^^ James Logan had been much attached to Ann Shippen. William Penn in a letter to Logan, dated at 
London, Eleventh month i6, 1704/5, writes : "I am anxiously grieved at thy unhappy love, for thy sake and 
my own, for T. S. and thy discord has been of no service here any more than there, and some say, that come 
thence, that thy amours have so altered or influenced thee that thou art grown touchy and apt to give short and 
rough answers, which many call haughty." etc. (" Penn and Logan Correspondence," vol. i., p. 358.) 

'* Thomas Story is said to have come to America in 1699. He was a minister in the Society of Friends, 
Isaac Norris writes in 1699: " Thomas seems to take much with strangers, as being very intelligible to the 
most curious observer, and delivers his matter safe from the most captious critic. He was bred a lawyer, but 
has laid that aside for the gospel. His conversation, as a man, sweet, gentle, and extremely affable; his 
spirit, as a Christian, extraordinarily humble ; and I have observed him to watch even against his own 

abilities, lest they should appear to exalt him in the opinion of any but I shall forbear." (" Memoirs 

of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania," vol. ix., p. 21.) 

^'J An interesting letter written by Joseph Shippen in 171 1, to his wife Abigail, who was visiting relatives 
in Boston, has been printed in the Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxiv., p. 259. 

28 " As early as 1709, Joseph Shippen began to purchase land in Germantown, and in time he or his 
sons owned one hundred acres, lying in one body there. In 1716 he went there to live, perhaps in the summer 
time, and no doubt it was he who erected the house, whose site is now occupied by that of Mr. Heft, No. 4612. 
There were other houses on their property. In his deed of 1740 to his sons, Edward, Joseph, and William, 



192 THE ANCESTRY OF 



and other learned societies.-^ Joseph Shippen was a vestryman of Christ 
Church, Philadelphia, in 1737.^" 

The will of Joseph Shippen, " late of the city of Philada., but now of Ger- 
mantown," merchant, dated December 30, 1740, proved June 13, 1741, recites 
that his father, Edward Shippen, by will, of which he is the surviving executor, 
devised to each of this testator's children the sum of seventy-five pounds, 
which sums he, the said executor, had not yet paid, therefore ordered that 
seventy-five pounds, with interest, be paid to his daughter Ann, wife of Charles 
Willing, and bequeathed an additional sum of three hundred pounds to his said 
daughter. 

The residue of his estate was bequeathed to his three sons, Edward, Joseph 
and William, who were appointed his executors. Witnessed by John Inglis, 
Thomas Hopkinson, William Biddis and Rebecca Jackson. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber F, folio 219.) 

Children of Joseph Shippen and Abigail Gross : 

1. Edward Shippen, born July 9, 1703; died .September 25. 1781; married (i) Sep- 

tember 20, 1725, Sarah Plumley; (2) August, 1747, Mary (Gray) 
Nowland.31 

2. Elizabeth Shippen, born April 17, 1705; died June 8, 1714. 

3. Joseph Shippen, bc^rn November 28, 1706; died July, 1793; married Mary 

Kearney. ^2 



the house is mentioned as the ' Roebvick Tavern.' In 1819 William Shippen, a great-grandson of the 
preceding William, and Mary his wife conveyed the property to George Heft ; with whom it became the well- 
known ' Buttonwood Tavern,' marked by two stately trees of that variety, standing before it, only one of 
which now remains." {Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. vi., p. 15.) 

^^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. .xxviii., p. 398, and Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. (52). 

^^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xix., p. 524. 

31 Edward Shippen, known as Edward Shippen of Lancaster, son of Joseph and Abigail Shippen, was 
born in Boston, and died in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His first wife, Sarah Plumley, was born in Phila- 
delphia, November 8, 1706 ; died April 28, 1735. She was daughter of Charles Plumley and Rose Budd : 
His second wife, Mary Nowland, born in London, January 13, 1705/6 ; died in Lancaster, May 3, 1778 ; 
was widow of John Nowland and daughter of William and Mary Gray. 

Edward Shippen was engaged for some time in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia ; with James Logan 
in 1732, imder firm name of Logan and Shippen, and in 1749 with Thomas Lawrence, as Shippen and 
Lawrence, in the fur trade. He was a member of the Common Council of Philadelphia, 1732; Alderman, 
1743; Mayor of the City, 1744, and Judge of the County Courts of Philadelphia, 1745 to 1750. In May of 
1752 he removed to Lancaster, where he held office as County Judge under both the Provincial and State 
governments ; was Prothonotary, 1753 to 1778, and was also Register, Recorder and Clerk of the Quarter 
Sessions Court. 

Edward Shippen had large transactions as paymaster for supplies for the British and Provincial forces 
commanded by General Forbes, General Stanwix and Colonel Bouquet, and managed them with so much 
integrity as to receive public thanks, 1760. In early life he laid out Shippensburg ; was one of the founders 
of "The College of New Jersey," now Princeton College, and a Trustee of the same, resigning in 1767. 
He was a subscriber to the Philadelphia Academy, afterwards the University of Pennsylvania. He is said to 
have been a fine French scholar, a rare attainment in those days. Mr. Shippen's advanced age prevented 
him from taking any very active part during the Revolution, except as a committeeman. (Keith's " Provincial 
Councillors," p. 53. Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xxviii., p. 399.) 

^'•* Joseph Shippen, son of Joseph and .Abigail Shippen, died in Germantown, Phila., and was buried in 
Christ Church ground. His wife Mary Kearney was from Barbadoes. He was elected October 5, 1742, to 
the City Council, in which he served for many years. (Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. 88.) 



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4. William Shippen, born August 31, 1708: died December 29, 1710 

5. ANNE SHIPPEN. born August 5, i/io: died June 23, 1790; married January 21, 

1730/1, Charles Willing. 

6. William Shippen, born October i, 1712; died January 10, 1775; married Septem- 

ber 19, 1735, Susannah Harrison.^s 

7. Elizabeth Shippen, born September 28. 1714; died December 3, 1714. 

MEMORANDUM FOUND IN THE WILLING BIBLE. 

Edward Shippen the first of the name who came to America, was the son of William 
Shippen of York Co. England. He emigrated to Boston prior to ^ February 1672, for 
on that day, his eldest daughter was born at Boston. He removed from Boston to Phila- 
delphia prior to 9^11 July 1695, for on that day he was elected Speaker of the Assembly 
of Pennsylv^ (See Votes of As.) By the charter of Philadelphia city dated 25 Oct 1701 
he was appointed the first Mayor of the city. From 1702 to 1704, he was President of the 
Governor's Council. He died in Philadelphia, 2P^ October 1712 aged Tz years— of Course 
he was born in 1639. 

Joseph Shippen, the fourth Son of Edward Shippen, was born at Boston 28 February 
1678, died at Germantown, June 1741. He removed from Boston to Philadelphia about 
1704, for his eldest son Edward Shippen was born in Boston 1703, and his Second in 
Philadelphia in 1705, he was a merchant in Philadelphia. His wife Abigail, died in Phila- 
delphia on 28"^ June 1716. Thev had issue. Edward Shippen, born in Boston ^^^ July 1703. 
Ann Shippen. born at Philadelphia 5*1^ August 1710, married to Charles Willing, on 21^* 
January 1730 and died 2^^ June 1791. 

D"". William Shippen, born i^* October 1712, married S. Harrison. 

Joseph Shippen born 28"' November 1706 died 1793. his only son Joseph Shippen 
died July 1766. His daughter Kitty married Mr. Wallen of Jamaica, who died soon after. 

Edward Shippen (2'*) born at Boston 9*1^ July 1703, was engaged in Mercantile busi- 
ness in Philadelphia with James Logan as the firm of Logan & Shippen. In 1749 he was 
in partnership with Thomas Lawrence in the fur trade, firm of Shippen & Lawrence. In 
1753- he removed to Lancaster, was Prothonotary of Lancaster till 1778, and a magistrate 
under the Provincial government and under the State Government after 1776. 

Edward Shippen (3'^) born in Philadelphia 16*^ February 1728 died in Philadelphia 
15*^ April 1806. aged "/%. In 1749 he was appointed Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, 
and Judge of the Vice Admiralty, 17^^ May 1784 Pres* of the Court of Common Pleas. 
Philadelphia, 29**^ January 1791 Judge of the Supreme Court, 18*'' December 1799, Chief 
Justice of Pennsylvania by Governor M'^Kean, resigned December 1805. 

Joseph Shippen (my father and brother of the Chief Justice) closed his education 
at Princeton College 1753. was a major in the Provincial Service 1758 at the Capture of 
Fort Duquesne by Gen' Forbes, then Colonel in same Service. In 1760 was in Europe at 
the same time with his cousin D'' W' Shippen (Prof"") In 1761 was appointed Secretary 
to the Governor (Penn). In 1789 was Judge of the Court in Lancaster. 

Robert Shippen, William Shippen. and John Shippen were (it is likely) the nephews 
of the i^t Edward Shippen. Robert was Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, and Prin- 
cipal of Brazenose College. 



3' William Shippen, generally known as Dr. William Shippen, the Elder, son of Joseph and Abigail 
Shippen, born in Philadelphia, died in Germantown ; his wife Susannah Harrison, born Philadelphia June 30, 
171 1, died between June 4, 1774 and January 10, 1775. She was daughter of Joseph Harrison and Katherine 
Noble. Dr. Shippen was Vice-President of the Junto, 1768 ; the first Physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital. 
1753-1778 ; one of the founders of the Second Presbyterian Church, 1742, and a member of it for nearly 
si.xty years. He was elected to the Continental Congress by the Assembly of Pennsylvania, November 20, 1778, 
and re-elected November 13, 1779. (Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. 135.) See chart of descendants of 
Dr. William Shippen, by the late Charles R. Hildebum, Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. i., p. 109. 

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William was a Member of Parliament, and for his bold and independent Speech in 
Parliament was committed to the Tower in 1717. 

John was Consul at Lisbon, born July 5*^^ 1678 or baptized, they were sons of the 
Reverend D"" William Shippen, Rector of S* Mary's Parish Church, Stockport (near Man- 
chester, Eng<5) he died in 1693, and was buried under the Chancel. The church is sup- 
posed to have been built about the year 1195. The chancel repaired and restored in its 
primitive character in 1848. 

From the printed Register of the University of Oxford. 

1656. William Shippen of University College received the degree of A.B. 
1659 Too the degree of A.M. 

He was afterwards Proctor of the University, Rector of Stockford in Cheshire, and 

D"" of Divinity by Diploma of D'' W™ Sancroft. 
1664. Archbishop Of Canterbury 

Edward Shippen of Brazenose College, received the degree A.M. July 22°^^ 1693. 

Robert Shippen of Brazenose College, took the degree of A.M. July 4*^^ 1699 and 
was made Doctor of Divinity July y^^ 1710. 

The following Pedigree of the Shippen family was taken from the family Bible of 
Judge Yeates of Lancaster on the loth July 1825 by me. 

(Signed) H. Shippen 

Pedigree of the family of Edward Shippen of Lancaster taken from himself, Septem- 
ber ID*'' 1775 by 

Jasper Yeates. 

My Grandfather, Edward Shippen, died 2"*^ October 1712. aged 73 years 
My Grandmother Elizabeth Shippen died 2^^^ October 1688, 

They had issue 

Frances Shippen born 2 Feby 1672 died in Boston April 1673. 

Edward, William & Elizabeth died infants. 

Edward Shippen, born 10*^'^ December 1677/8 died 26*'* Dec"^ 1712 in Phil^ He married 
Francina Vanderspeyden in Maryland, they had issue one daughter Margaret, mar- 
ried to John Jekyll 

Joseph Shippen, (my father) was born 28 Feby 1678/9, died in June 1741 in Germantown. 

Mary Shippen, born 1681 died 1688. 

Ann Shippen, born 17 June 1684 intermarried with Tho^ Story. 

By his 2°"^ wife Rebecca had issue Elizabeth 1691 died 1692. 

By his 3"* wife Esther James (a widow) had issue, John died young. 

William Shippen who died 1731, aged 25 or 26 years. 

My father Joseph Shippen was married in Boston to Abigail Gross daughter of Thomas 
and Elizabeth Gross on 28 July 1702. 

They had issue 

I, Edward Shippen born in Boston 9 July 1703. (died 1781) 

Elizabeth Shippen born in Philadelphia 17 April 1705, died 1714 

Joseph Shippen, my brother born in Philadelphia 28 November 1706 (died 1793) He 
married Mary Kearney and had issue Several children. 

William, born 31 August 1708 died 1710. 

Ann born 5 August 1710, married Charles Willing, and had issue. 

D'' William Shippen, born i'^* October 1712, married Susan Harrison. 

Elizabeth born 1714 died 1714. 

I, Edward Shippen, was married to Sarah Plumley by the Reverend J. Andrews in Phila- 
delphia 20^^ September 1725 (died at Lancaster 25 September 1781, aged 78 years) 

We had issue. 



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195 



Edward Shippen born 16*^'^ February 1728 married to Mary Francis, died iG*^*! April 1806, 

aged 78 years. 
Sarah Shippen, born 22 February 17,30, married to James Burd, died 17 September 1784. 

Col. James Burd died 5"» October 1793 
Joseph Shippen, born 30^^ October 1732, married to Jane Galloway, died 10 February 1810 

at Lancaster. 
Col. James Burd and Sarah his wife had issue (inter alia) 
Sarah Burd, born in 1748, married to Jasper Yeates Esq. 

Edward Burd, born in Philadelphia 5'^ February 1750, married to Elizabeth, daughter of 
Edward Shippen, C. J. died 1832. 

They had issue 
Margaret married to D. W. Coxe 
Edward Shippen Burd 
Sarah 



VI. Ann Shippen, married Charles Willing. 
V. Charles Willing, married Elizabeth Hannah Carrington. 
IV. Ann Willing, married Luke Morris. 
III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline Maria 

Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




196 THE ANCESTRY OF 



STIER. 

The earliest record of the Stier family^ which has been found is in Amster- 
dam, where, according to the Dutch custom, the name changed in each genera- 
tion, the son taking his father's Christian name as a surname. 

GENERATION X. 

Pierre Coenens, born 1543; died January 21,1621; married May 15, 
1574, Jeanne Jacobs, born February 1, 1549; died August 23, 1625. 

IX. 

Jean Pietersen, son of Pierre, born February 19, 1583; died April 10, 
1648; married June 30, 1613, Petronille Dirck Hooft, born May 12, 1593; died 
February 20, 1644. 

VIII. 

Albert Stier, baptized August 17, 1629; died October 28, 1628; married 
June 16, 1658, Catherine Rysers. 

VIL 

Henri Stier, born in Amsterdam, November 20, 1673; died there April 
16, 1744; married January 26, 1701, Cornelie Nicolette van Tetz. 

VI. 

Albert Jean Stier, son of Henri and Cornelie Nicolette, born in Amster- 
dam, December 31, 1701; died in Antwerp, March 30, 1759, and was buried 
April I in St. James' Church; married April 22, 1736, in St. James' parish, Ant- 
werp, Isabelle Helene de la Bistrate. 

V. 

Henri Joseph Stier, Lord of Aertselaer and Cleydael, son of Albert Jean 
and Isabelle Helene, baptized in St. James' parish, Antwerp, February 19, 1743; 
married June i, 1767, in the same parish, Marie Louise Peeters, Lady of Aert- 
selaer and Cleydael. 

Henri Joseph Stier fled from Antwerp, June, 1794, with his wife and three 
children, just before the French occupation, taking with him what property he 
could. Proceeding to Amsterdam, Mr. Sylvanus Bourne, Consul of the United 



iln the arrangement of the Stier record, the famihes which come through the Stier connection are 
separately placed, in alphabetical order, directly after the Stier data. The names also appear in their proper 
places in the alphabetical arrangement of the rest of the book, with references to the Stier record. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 197 



States of America, on August 2, 1794, granted Mr. Stier a passport, in which 
it was stated that the family was going to America to settle some commercial 
affairs and private interests. A few days later Mr. Stier and his family em- 
barked at Amsterdam on the " Adriane," and arrived in Philadelphia, October 
I3> 1794, and there continued to live until December, 1795, when they removed 
to Alexandria, Virginia. 

The French entered Antwerp July 23, 1794, and three days later a war con- 
tribution of 10,000,000 francs was levied upon the town, to be paid within five 
days. Most of the noble families had left the town, taking with them whatever 
they could carry. The w^ealthy were taxed according to the presumed import- 
ance of their fortune. Mr. Stier was required to pay 40,000 francs, while his 
son-in-law, Jean IMichel A. J. L. van Havre, was assessed 18,000 francs. The 
French authorities later published an edict, threatening severe penalties on 
those who should not pay the sum for which they were taxed. Furthermore, 
failing payment, their properties were to be seized and sold to cover the 
assessed amount. 

Owing to Mr. Stier's absence, his tax was not paid, and in consequence, 
about October, 1794, a portion of his property was sold, producing a sum of 
37<524 francs. Everything had in the meantime undergone an enormous de- 
preciation. The following additional tax was then levied: upon Mr. Stier, 130,- 
000 francs; upon Charles Jean Stier, his son, 25,000 francs, and upon Mr. van 
Havre, his son-in-law% 30,000 francs. This arbitrary increase was, however, 
abrogated by a resolution of a committee in Paris on February 10, 1795. 

On October i, 1795, Belgium was annexed to France, and immediately 
thereupon the laws which the French Government had already enacted against 
the French emigrants applied also to those of Belgium. This required all 
absentees to return to their homes within three months after the proclamation 
of the annexation, otherwise, being considered emigrants, their estates would 
be seized and sold for the benefit of the republic. When what had happened at 
Antwerp came to the knowledge of Mr. Stier, he had executed by a notary of 
Philadelphia, on July 7 and November 23, 1795, pow-ers of attorney to a certain 
Mr. Louvrex to administer his afifairs in Antwerp. 

On September 5, 1796, the municipal authorities of Antwerp enrolled all 
the inhabitants of the town accused of being emigrants and granted them a 
delay of fifty days to protest against their inscription on the roll. Mr. Louvrex 
presented a petition to the municipality, in which he stated that Mr. Stier, with 
his family, had gone to America to arrange his business afifairs and also to 
escape the tyranny of the English, several English regiments, commanded by 
the Duke of York, having been in garrison in Antwerp, before the entry of 
the French. 

By resolution of April 22, 1797, the government authorities in Antwerp 
struck the names of Mr. Stier and his family from the roll of emigrants, on 
condition that ]\Ir. Stier should pay the arrears of the tax which had been levied 
upon him. Mr. Louvrex accordingly paid, in the name of ]\Ir. Stier, on June 



198 THE ANCESTRY OF 



13, 1797, the sum of 3,094 francs, to complete (including interest) the 40,000 
francs originally taxed. On June 23, 1797, he paid a further sum of 6,000 
francs, which had been assessed in a new forced loan, decreed December 10, 

1795- 

The misfortunes of the family were not, however, ended, for the reso- 
lution of the authorities at Antwerp had yet to be submitted to the Minister 
of General Police in Paris for final decision. Several months elapsed, and on 
November 2, 1799, the body representing the French Government in Paris 
issued the following decree : 

Article No. i. The resolution of the .A.dministration at Antwerp of April 22nd, 
1797 is revoked. 

Article No. 2. The names of Henri Joseph Stier and Marie Louise Peeters, his 
wife, Charles Jean Stier, his son, and Rosalie Eugenia Stier, his daughter, are definitely 
retained on the roll of the emigrants. 

Article No. 3. Their personal property and real estate will be confiscated and sold 
for the profit of the Republic, according to law. 

Article No. 4. They are forbidden to return to the territory of the Republic under 
pain of being treated as emigrants, who have infringed their banishment. 

Breach of banishment was punishable with death, according to the law of 
the 25th Brumaire, year III (November 15, 1794). 

This deplorable sentence was one of the last which the government at 
Paris pronounced, as its overthrow took place November 9, 1799, only a week 
later. New laws were made and the supreme authority entntsted to three Con- 
suls, the first of whom was General Napoleon Bonaparte. From this time cir- 
cumstances became more favorable, and by degrees the despotic laws of the 
Revolutionists were modified and later repealed. 

On February 26, 1800, by resolution of the Consuls, the Minister of Police 
was ordered to send to the Minister of Justice, for examination, all the claims 
put in by emigrants. A few months later several legal depositions were made, 
at first in behalf of the wives and daughters of the emigrants, and by resolution 
of 2 Brumaire, year X. (October 24, 1801), the Minister of General Police 
erased from the roll of emigrants the names of Mrs. Marie Louise Peeters 
Stier and her daughter, Rosalie Eugenia Stier, thereby authorizing them to 
again take possession of their properties, with the exception of those which 
had been sold for the benefit of the Republic. A similar resolution was passed 
November 20, 1801, in favor of Mrs. van Havre, nee Isabelle Marie Stier. 
Finally, on April 26, 1802, all the laws made against the emigrants were abro- 
gated and the emigrants included in a general amnesty. The main conditions 
of this amnesty were as follows : 

Article No. 2. Emigrants must return to the country before September 23d. 1802. 

Article No. 4. They w^ill be required to make oath of fidelity to the French Con- 
stitution. 

Article No. 12. All those included in the amnesty will be placed, for the term of 
ten years, under the supervision of the police. 

Article No. 17. The properties which are still sequestered will be returned to 
them. 



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199 



A number of emigrants, having learned of the more favorable condition of 
afifairs, had not waited for the promulgation of the law, but returned to the 
country, and among them Mr. Stier, who left his wife and daughters in 
America. Mr. Stier embarked about March or April, 1802, with his son, Charles 
Jean Stier, and his son-in-law, Jean Michel A. J. L. van Havre, and arrived at 
Antwerp about the beginning of May, 1802, and on May 13, 1802, Charles Jean 
Stier and Jean ]\Iichel A. J. L. van Havre submitted their oaths of fidelity to 
the French Constitution in Antwerp, before the Prefect of the Department. 
Mr. Henri Joseph Stier went to France, probably in order to hasten the settle- 
ment of his affairs, and made oath of fidelity at Versailles, May 31, 1802, to the 
Prefect of the Department of the Seine. 

Directly after this Mr. Henri Joseph Stier returned to America, and was 
in Georgetown, on the Potomac, July 19, 1802, at which time his wife, Marie 
Louise Peeters, and his daughters, Mrs. van Havre and Mrs. Calvert, nee 
Rosalie Eugenia Stier, made oath of fidelity to the French Constitution before 
the Chancellor of the Legation of the French Republic in the United States. 

About this time the Stier family returned to Antwerp, for on the 12th 
Brumaire, year XL (November 3, 1802), Mr. Stier obtained a replevin of his 
estate under sequestration, by a resolution of the Prefect of the Department. 
Rosalie Eugenia Stier, baptized February 16, 1778, in St. James' Parish, Ant- 
werp, came with her parents to this country, and, having married George Cal- 
vert, remained in America. 

The Republican Calendar used in the above dates was in force from 
September 22, 1792, until December 31, 1802.' 

Henri Joseph Stier died in Eeckeren, near Antwerp, Jvme 22, 1821. 



BATKIN. 

Generation XL 

Charles Batkin, of Antwerp, broker, died July i, 1607; married, in the 
Cathedral at Antwerp, November 25, 1586 Catherine op den Craen, his second 
wife, who died in 1623. 



X. 

Michel Batkin, merchant, son of Charles and Catherine, baptized in the 
Cathedral at Antwerp, July 19, 1592; died March 26, 1677, in Antwerp; married 
in the Cathedral there, June 16, 1618, Madeleine Doncker. Their daughter, 
Madeleine Batkin, baptized July 22, 1624; died March 4, 1687; married January 
28, 1648, Jean Chauwin. 



200 THE ANCESTRY OF 

BOSSCHAERT. 

Generation XI. 

Andre Bosschaert, of Antwerp, merchant, baptized in the parish of St. 
Andrew, Antwerp, November 30, 1560; died May 31, 1611; married about 
1590, Catherine BasseHers, who died September 18, 1599. Their daughter, 
Catherine Bosschaert, baptized November i, 1595; died May 17, 1655; married 
August 7, 1616, Melchior Lunden. 

XI. 

CoRNEiLLE Bosschaert, of Antwerp, merchant and almoner ; - baptized 
in the Cathedral, July 27, 1570; died July 6, 1630; married in St. James' parish, 
Antwerp, September 13, 1594, Claire van Valckenburg, who died November 
25, 1626. 

X. 

Walter Bosschaert, merchant, son of Corneille and Claire, baptized in 
the Cathedral of Antwerp, November 13, 1607; died July 18, 1655; married 
(second wife) in Cologne, Germany, January 20, 1643, Marie de Groot. Their 
daughter, Sybille Bosschaert, baptized October 23, 1643; ^i^d January 30, 
1690; married July 18, 1662, Henri Frangois Schilder. 



BRANDT. 

Generation XII. 

Jean Brandt, sheriff, of Antwerp, died August 23, 1639; married in the 
Cathedral of Antwerp, October 23, 1590, Claire de Moy, who died August 24, 
1637. For several years Rubens and his wife lived with her father, Jean 
Brandt. 

Isabelle Brandt, daughter of Jean and Claire, baptized October 20, 
1591 ; died June 20, 1626; married October 13, 1609, Pierre Paul Rubens. 



CHARLE. 

Generation XL 

Pierre Charle of Antwerp, merchant, born 1528; died July 5, 1609, aged 
eighty-one years; married July 31, 1572, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, Barbe 
Andriessens, born 1551 ; died October 30, 1631. Their daughter, Isabelle 
Charle, died April 24, 1661 ; married t6t2, Corneille van Wyck. 



2 The almoners of Antwerp were the overseers of the poor. This was an official position courted by 
the members of the best and richest families of the town. The almoners, four in number, were appointed by 
the council of Burgomasters and Sheriffs, two being elected each year. 



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CHAUWIN. 
Generation IX. 

Jean Chauwin, of Antwerp, merchant, son of Paul Chauvvin and Susanne 
Borel, was probably born in Cambray, as his parents had property there which 
was divided among the heirs on May 17, 1622, before a notary, as was cus- 
tomary. He died in Antwerp, August 4, 1679, and was married twice; (i) in 
the Cathedral, northern part, September 29, 1633, to Helene de la Bistrate ; (2) in 
the Cathedral, January 28, 1648, to Madeleine Batkin. Anne Therese Chauwin, 
daughter of Jean and Madeleine, was baptized February 15, 1650; died Novem- 
ber 9, 1726; married October 7, 1674, Jean Charles de la Bistrate. 



CHEEUS. 

Generation XL 

Nicolas Corneille Cheeus, of Antwerp, died March 31, 1621 ; married 
in the Cathedral of Antwerp, April 17, 1616, Anne de Schot, baptized February 
5, 1592; died 1660-1663. 

Their daughter, Anne Marie Cheeus, baptized August 22, 1619; died April 
5, 1659; married July 15, 1640, Charles Vincque. 



DE BRIALMONT. 

Generation XL 

GiLLES DE Mont dit de Brialmont, woolen draper, born in Stavelot, a 
town near Liege; made freeman of Antwerp, May 17, 1577; died there October 
19, 1616; married in Antwerp, August 5, 1576, Marie Masquele, who died Sep- 
tember 22, 1616. 

X. 

Jacques de Mont dit de Brialmont, woolen draper, son of Gilles and 
Marie, born about 1585 ; died between December, 1644, and February, 1645 ; 
married in the Cathedral at Antwerp, January 8, 161 1, Maria Macquereel. 



IX. 

Gilles de Mont dit de Brialmont, merchant, son of Jacques and Maria, 
baptized in the Cathedral of Antwerp, northern part, June 5, 1620; died June 
15, 1668; married in St. George's parish, Antwerp, February 18, 1643, Barbe van 
Wyck. 



202 THE ANCESTRY OF 

VIII. 

Jacques Jean de Mont dit de Brialmont, son of Gilles and Barbe, bap- 
tized in the Cathedral at Antwerp, northern part, November 19, 1646; died 
September 29, 1701 ; married in St. George's parish, Antwerp, January 9, 1686, 
Jeanne Catherine Lunden. He was Hcentiate in law, sheriff and almoner of 
Antwerp; obtained rehabilitation of nobility by letters-patent of April i, 1687, 
granted by King Charles II. of Spain. 

Helene Fran^oise de Mont dit de Brialmont, baptized July 7, 1688; died 
March 6, 1743; married May 12, 1709, Jean Baptiste de la Bistrate. 



DE CONINCK. 

Generation X. 

Jean de Coninck, of Antwerp, merchant, died November 20, 1675; mar- 
ried about 1617, Maria de Buckere, who died March 11, 1671. 

IX. 

Jean de Coninck, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, son of Jean and 
Maria, was baptized in the Cathedral of Antwerp, northern part, October 4, 
1619; died November 10, 1684; married (i) May 17, 1654, in the Cathedral of 
Antwerp, Anne Marie Macquereel; (2), in St. James' parish, Antwerp, Decem- 
ber 12, Helene Chauwin, 



VIH. 

Jacques de Coninck, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, son of Jean de 
Coninck and his first wife, Anne Marie, baptized August i, 1661, in St. Wal- 
burge parish, Antwerp; died February 12, 1724; married in the parish of St. 
James, Antwerp, January 14, 1689, Marie Mathilde Schilder. 

Their daughter, Marie Mathilde de Coninck, baptized July 15, 1691 ; died 
May 9, 1754; married September 21, 1719, Pascal Jean Augustin van den 
Cruyce. 

.VIII. 

Louis Francois de Coninck, of Antwerp, banker, son of Jean de 
Coninck and his second wife Helene, baptized in the parish of St. Walburge, 
July 31, 1674; died November 14, 1758; married in St. James' parish, Antwerp, 
June 15, 1698, Catherine Le Candele. 

Their daughter, Catherine de Coninck, baptized November 17, 1699: died 
August 2^, 1731 ; married February 28, 1721, Jean Constantin Peeters. 



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DE DECKERE. 
Generation XL 
Pascal de Deckere, of Antwerp, born 1542; died October 14, 1605, aged 
sixty-three years; married in St. Andrew's parish, Antwerp, April 5, 1582, 
Christine Boot, born 1563; died December 23, 1623. 

Their daughter, Dymphne de Deckere, died between 1610 and 1615; mar- 
ried October i, 1606, Fran<;ois van den Cruyce. 

DE GROOT. 

Generation XL 

Henri de Groot, merchant and sheriff of Cologne; born in Cologne, 
January 12, 1585; died there January 2, 1651 ; married May 3, 1616, Sybille 
Diisterlo, who died 1636. 

Their daughter, Marie de Groot, born February 5, 1617; died April 19, 
1661 ; married January 20, 1643, Walter Bosschaert. 



DE LA BISTRATE. 
Generations X. and XL 

Charles de la Bistrate,^ merchant, son of Gilles de la Bistrate and 
Helene Vivien, died in Antwerp May 25, 1644; married April 20, 1603, in the 
parish of St. Gery, Valenciennes, Franqoise de la Disme. 

Their daughter, Helene de la Bistrate, baptized February 26, 1604; died 
June 20, 1647; married September 29, 1633, Jean Chauwin. 

IX. 

Charles de la Bistrate, son of Charles and Franqoise, merchant and 
almoner of Antwerp, died May 20, 1685; married in the Cathedral, northern 
part, November 18, 1640, Cornelie Doncker. Charles de la Bistrate came from 
Valenciennes to Antwerp. He was ennobled by letters-patent of February 11, 
1682, granted by Charles II., King of Spain. 

VIII. 
Jean Charles de la Bistrate, Lord of Laer and Neerwinde, almoner of 
Antwerp, son of Charles and Cornelie de la Bistrate, was baptized in the Cathe- 
dral of Antwerp, northern part, December i, 1648; died August 26, 1722, and 
was buried August 28, in St. James' Church, Antwerp; married in St. James' 
parish, October 7, 1674, Anne Therese Chauwin, who died November 9, 1726. 
He was dubbed knight by Charles 11. of Spain, by letters-patent, September 
10, 1699. 



3 This line comes in on both the Stier and Peeters sides of the house. In the former line Charles 
de la Bistrate is in the tenth generation, and in the latter in the eleventh, the span of the generations being 
shorter on the Peeters side. 



204 THE ANCESTRY OF 

VII. 

Jean Baptiste de la Bistrate, Lord of Laer and Neerwinde, almoner 
of Antwerp, son of Jean Charles and Anne Therese de la Bistrate, was baptized 
June 24, 1684, in the parish of St. James, and buried in the same church, August 
5, 1742; married May 12, 1709, in St. George's parish, Antwerp, Helene Fran- 
goise de Mont dit de Brialmont. 

Their daughter, Isabclle Helene de la Bistrate, baptized July 30, 1717; died 
October 2^, 1787; married April 22, 1736, Albert Jean Stier. 

DONCKER. 

Generation XI. 

Jean Doncker, of Antwerp, merchant, died May 7, 1591 ; married August 
18, 1 55 1, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, Madeleine Hockaert, who died June 8, 
1613. 

X. 

Balthasar Doncker, merchant, almoner and treasurer of Antwerp, son 
of Jean and Madeleine, baptized December 10, 1564, in the Cathedral; died 
July 9, 1637; married November 3, 1596, Elizabeth Greyns, his second wife. 

Their daughter, Cornelie Doncker, baptized July 24, 1614; died July i, 
1680; married November 18, 1640, Charles de la Bistrate. 

XL 

Melchior Doncker, merchant, baptized in the Cathedral of Antwerp, 
October 6, 1563 ; died in Antwerp, June 8, 161 3 ; married January 26, 1594, in St 
Walburge parish, Antwerp, Anne van Veltwyck, who died January 5, 1632. 

Their daughter, Madeleine Doncker, baptized December 23, 1594; died 
October 25, 1667; married June 16, 1618, Michel Batkin. 

GREYNS. 

Generation XL 

Lambert Greyns, brewer, born at Sittaert, in the province of Limburg, 
Holland; made freeman of Antwerp, May 11, 1571 ; married in the Cathedral of 
Antwerp, October 31, 1575, Elizabeth van Baerle. 

Their daughter, Elizabeth Greyns, died April 19, 1641 ; married November 
3, 1596, Balthasar Doncker. 

HELLEMANS. 

Generation XL 

Charles Hellemans, merchant, born at Antwerp; died between 1604 and 
1610, probably in Venice, Italy, where he lived; married Lucrece Mannetti, and 
had two sons. 



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X. 

Pierre Hellemans, Lord of Aertselaer and Cleydael, elder son of Charles 
and Lucrece, born in Venice in 1596; died at Aertselaer, August 27, 1655, and 
was buried in Antwerp ; married April 26, 1618, in St. James' parish, Antwerp, 
his first cousin, Marie Helman. 

Jeanne Catherine Hellemans, Lady of Cleydael, daughter of Pierre and 
Marie; baptized in the parish of St. James, Antwerp, February 13, 1619; died 
November 29, 1649; married in St. James' parish, December 5, 1638, Pascal 
Francois van den Cruyce. 



HELMAN. 

Generation XL 

Ferdinand Helman, merchant and sherifif of Antwerp, died August i, 
1617; married (i) January 29, 1589, in St. James' parish, Anne Hellemans; mar- 
ried (2) January, 1603, Catherine van der Veken. 

Marie Helman, daughter of Ferdinand and Anne, baptized October 15, 
1592; died 1659; married April 26, 1618, Pierre Hellemans. 

Constance Helman, daughter of Ferdinand and Catherine, baptized August 
25, 1609; died 1678; married October 9, 1640, Nicolas Rubens. 



LE CANDELE. 

Generation XL 

Louis Le Candele, merchant, born in Armentieres, France, was made 
freeman of Lille, January 13, 1584; went to Antwerp about 1604 and died there, 
October 2, 1619; married about 1583, Antoinette Raes, who died in Antwerp, 
November 28, 1624. 

X. 

Louis Le Candele, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, son of Louis and 
Antoinette, born about 1600; died April 28, 1659; married January 21, 1634, in 
the parish of St. Walburge, Antwerp, Elizabeth Schrynmaeckers. 



IX. 

Louis Le Candele, merchant, son of Louis and Elizabeth, baptized in the 
parish of St. Walburge, Antwerp, January 24, 1635; died January 20, 1691 ; 
married February 8, 1668, in St. James' parish, Antwerp, Catherine Vincque. 

Their daughter, Catherine Le Candele, baptized March 3, 1676; died Sep- 
tember 12, 171 1 ; married June 15, 1698, Louis Francois de Coninck. 



2o6 THE ANCESTRY OF 



LEMMENS. 

Generation XL 

Jacques Lemmens, a chamois leather dealer, died between June, 1617, and 
June, 1620; married about 1560, Catherine de Cock. 

Their daughter, Elizabeth Lemmens, baptized January 27, 1568; died 
1631/2; married August 2^, 1595, Luc Peeters. 

LUNDEN. 

Generation XL 
Melchior Lunden, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, born 1550; died 
May 23, 1608, aged fifty-eight years; married September 11, 1580, Catherine 
van Solt. 

X. 

Melchior Lunden, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, son of Melchior 
and Catherine, baptized February 18, 1588; died December 24, 1653; married 
August 7, 1 61 6, in Antwerp Cathedral, his second wife, Catherine Bosschaert. 

IX. 

Jean Baptiste Lunden, merchant, son of Melchior and Catherine (Boss- 
chaert) Lunden, baptized May 3, 1636, in the Cathedral, southern part ; died 
March 18, 1703; married September 22, 1660, Helene Frangoise Rubens. Jean 
Baptiste Lunden was ennobled November 8, 1682, by letters-patent granted by 
King Charles IL of Spain. 

Jeanne Catherine Lunden, daughter of Jean Baptiste and Helene Fran- 
^oise, baptized July 31, 1662; died December 13, 1696; married January 9, 
1686, Jacques Jean de Mont dit de Brialmont. 

MACQUEREEL. 

Generation XL 

Francois Macquereel, merchant, born 1553; died between 1604 and 
161 1 ; married Marie Godevaerts. 

Their daughter, Marie Macquereel, baptized September 12, 1589, died 
1670; married January 8, 161 1, Jacques de Mont dit de Brialmont. 

X. 

Francois Macquereel, merchant, son of Franqois and Marie, died 
between 1633 and 1637; married July 17, 1612, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, 
Anne Walewyns. 

Their daughter, Anne Marie Macquereel, baptized August 6, 1630, died 
August 3, 1661 ; married May 17, 1654, Jean de Coninck. 



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MOENS. 

Generation XL 

Henri Moens, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, born 1558; died Janu- 
ary 24, 1625; married September 21, 1586, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, Con- 
stance Bonanomi, baptized October 9, 1570; died November 2y, 1642. 

Their daughter, Anne (Marie) Moens, baptized November 30, 1588; died 
April 10, 1666; married November 5, 1613, Jean Goyvaertsen van den Graef. 

PEELERS. 

Generation XL 

EvRARD Peeters, of Antwerp, baker, died October 2, 1582; married July, 
1569, Marguerite Braem, who died November 16, 1586. 

X. 

Luc Peeters, leather currier, son of Evrard and Marguerite, baptized 
November 9, 1572, in the Cathedral of Antwerp; died 1648; married first, 
August 2"], 1595, in the Cathedral, Elizabeth Lemmens. 

IX. 

Edouard Peeters, merchant, son of Luc and Elizabeth, baptized January 
24, 1612, in the Cathedral, Antwerp; died November 10, 1678; married March 
14, 1648, in the parish of St. James, Anne (Marie) Goyvaertsen van den Graef. 

VIII. 
Michel Peeters, son of Edouard and Anne, baptized June 20, 165 1, in 
St. James' parish, Antwerp; died Alarch 14, 1729; was ennobled by letters- 
patent of King Charles 11. of Spain, November 22, 1682; knighted June 18, 
1683, by letters-patent of the same monarch; married February 16, 1683, in 
St. James' parish, Antwerp, Marie Josephe van Eelen. 

VII. 
Jean Constantin Peeters, son of Michel and Marie Josephe, baptized 
January 2, 1692, in St. James' parish, Antwerp; died August 2, 1727; married 
February 28, 1721, in St. James" parish. Antwerp, Catherine de Coninck. 

V. 

Jean Gilles Peeters, Lord of Aertselaer, Cleydael, Buerstede, etc., son 
of Jean Constantin and Catherine, baptized x-Vpril 10. 1725, in the Cathedral, 
northern part; died July 20, 1786; married at Antwerp, in the Cathedral, north- 
ern part, February 21, 1747, Mathilde Fran^oise van den Cruyce, lady of Aert- 
selaer, Cleydael, etc. 

Their daughter, Marie Louise Peeters, baptized April 21. 1748; died April 
2.2., 1804; married June i, 1767, Henri Joseph Stier. 



2o8 THE ANCESTRY OF 



RUBENS. 

Generation XIT. 

John Rubens, lawyer and sheriff of Antwerp, was the only child of his 
parents. He received the best education to be had and was sent to Italy, then 
the chief seat of learning, where he took, in Rome, the degree of Doctor of 
Laws, in his twenty-fourth year. On November 29, 1561, he married, in St. 
James' parish, Antwerp, Marie Pypelincx, a lady of good position, distin- 
guished alike for beauty, intelligence and elevation of character. 

In 1 561 John Rubens became councillor and alderman of Antwerp, a post 
he held until 1568. This was the period of the terrible blood-council of Alva. 
Egmont and Horn were beheaded in 1568, and on the 6th of June, Van Strael- 
len, burgomaster of Antwerp, was executed at Vilvorde. John Rubens held 
the next place in the municipal government, and being denounced, deemed it 
prudent to go into exile with his family at Cologne, where he arrived towards 
the end of the year. 

In Cologne also resided, at this time, Anne of Saxony, the second wife 
of William the Silent, Prince of Orange. Anne had quarreled with and parted 
from her husband, and was then making appeals to Alva to have relieved from 
confiscation those estates of the Prince of Orange which had been apportioned 
as her dower. For conducting her affairs she employed as one of her agents 
John Rubens, who soon obtained her full confidence, accompanied her on 
various journeys into Germany, and for whom she took a passionate fancy. 
This being discovered by the Nassau family, John Rubens was, on one of his 
journeys, seized and closely imprisoned in the Castle of Dillemburg, in the 
Duchy of Nassau, 

In 1573 he was released, through the heroic efforts of his wife, and resided 
in Siegen until 1577, when he received permission to return to Cologne, and 
there died, March i, 1587. Marie, the widow of John Rubens, and mother of 
Peter Paul Rubens, died in 1608, and was buried in the Abbey of St. Michael's, 
Antwerp.'* 

XL 

Peter Paul Rubens, son of John Rubens and Marie Pypelincx, was born 
June 29, 1577,^ the Prince de Chimay and the Countess Lalaing being his spon- 
sors at baptism. He studied art under Tobias Verhaeght, Adam van Noort, 



* The foregoing account of John Rubens and that of Peter Paul Rubens which follows, have been taken 
from "The Life of Rubens," by George H. Calvert, (published by Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1878), to 
which the reader is referred for further interesting facts concerning John Rubens and his wife. The author 
was a descendant of the artist. In the sketch of Peter Paul Rubens some additions have been made from 
Chambers' Encyclopedia. 

5 The place of birth of Peter Paul Rubens has been variously given by his biographers as Cologne, 
Antwerp and Siegen. George H. Calvert, in his " Life of Rubens," gives the following reasons which appear to 
be conclusive that Antwerp was his birthplace : "By the Pacification of Cjhent in 1576, the refugees were 
allowed to return home and to take repossession of their property, which for so many years had been 
sequestered. Now, John Rubens was on parole in Siegen, and under heavy bond not to quit that town, and 
especially not to cross the Belgian frontier. He obtained leave to go as far as Cologne, in order to execute 



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and lastly with Otto Venius. In 1598 Venius was made painter to the court 
of the Archduke Albert. The wife of the Archduke was Isabella, daughter of 
Philip II. of Spain, to whom her father had transferred the Netherlands prior 
to his death. 

Rubens was about this time made a member of the Society of St. Luke, in 
Antwerp. He was highly commended to the Archduke by Venius, to whom 
Rubens was as a son, and when the latter set out for Italy, in 1600, he carried 
letters from the Archduke to regal personages in that country. In Venice he 
became painter to the court of Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, a member of his 
household, and was by Gonzaga sent on a diplomatic mission to King Philip 
III. of Spain. Rubens remained in Spain about a year, executing many por- 
traits of members of the noble families, and some historical subjects. Return- 
ing, he traveled in Italy, copying celebrated works for the Duke of Mantua. 

He painted pictures for Pope Paul V. and for several Cardinals and 
princely houses. His brother Philip joined him, with whom he diligently 
studied the antiquities of Rome. In 1608 the result of their researches was 
published by Philip in a volume, to the literary part of which Peter Paul con- 
tributed, besides giving the drawings for six copperplate illustrations. From 
Rome Rubens went to Florence, where he was favorably received by the Grand 
Duke Ferdinand I., and by him engaged to paint several pictures. He also 
visited and painted in Florence, Milan and Genoa, spending considerable 
time in the last city, where, besides painting many pictures, he made sketches 
of the fronts of the most remarkable palaces and churches. 

While in Genoa, in the beginning of November, 1608, he learned that his 
mother was ill. He at once set out for Antwerp, but arrived too late to see 
her alive. 

Rubens then remained in Antwerp, and was appointed court-painter to 
Archduke Albert. He was married, October 13, 1609, in the Church of St. 
Michael, Antwerp, to Isabella Brandt, a sister to his brother PhiHp's wife. She 
died June 20, 1626. Shortly after his marriage Rubens bought a house with 
spacious grounds and garden, in the street which now bears his name, and 
built a palatial abode, having a separate compartment for works of art, which 
was placed beyond the court yard in form of a capacious rotunda, lighted from 
the top. Here he deposited and arranged his treasures, pictures, marbles, 



there a power of attorney in favor of Marie Pypelincx, her brother and uncle, giving them authority to take 
possession in his name of all properties to which he was now entitled. This power, executed on the 28th of 
April, 1577, under the seal of Cologne, is registered in the chancellery of that city. Two months after 
receiving this power, Marie Pypelincx, on the 29th of June, 1577, gave birth to her great son, Peter 
Paul, so baptized because his birth fell on the festival day of Saints Peter and Paul. This were of itself enough 
to justify the conclusion that Peter Paul was born in Antwerp,' whither his mother had gone to execute the 
power of attorney ; but corroborative testimony flows in from several sources. At his baptism the Pnnce 
de Chimay and the Countess Lalaing were sponsors to the infant, both of them residing in or near Antwerp. 
Philip Rubens, born at Cologne, had to be formally naturalized when in after years he wished to hold office 
in Antwerp ; whereas Peter Paul, who held a still higher office, had no need of this formality. Towards the 
end of his life Rubens, being engaged to paint a picture to go to Cologne, spoke of that city as the place 
where he had spent the first ten years of his life, but omits any mention of being born there. When he was 
knighted by Charies I. of England he is called a native of Antwerp." 

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2IO THE ANCESTRY OF 

vases of agate and porphyry, engravings, medals, cameos, gems and intaglios. 
The residence of Rubens is still standing. For several years, while awaiting 
the completion of his home, he resided with his father-in-law. 

The painter w^as at this time rapidly approaching his full artistic maturity, 
and his " Descent from the Cross," in the Cathedral of Antwerp, begun in 1611 
and completed in 1614, and usually regarded as his masterpiece, is a work in 
which both his earlier and later manner may be traced. 

In 1620 Rubens was invited to France by Marie de Medici, the queen- 
mother, who was then engaged in decorating the palace of the Luxembourg in 
Paris; and he undertook for her the twenty-one large subjects commemorating 
her marriage to Henry IV., works (completed with the aid of assistants in 
1625) which are now in the Louvre, most of the sketches by the master's own 
hand being at Munich. In 1628 he was dispatched by the Infanta Isabella 
upon a diplomatic mission to Philip IV. of Spain. He remained for nine 
months at Madrid, and there made the acquaintance of Velasquez, and exe- 
cuted some forty works, including five portraits of the Spanish monarch. In 
1629 he was appointed envoy to Charles I. of England, to treat for peace ; and 
while he conducted a delicate negotiation with perfect tact and success, his 
brush was not idle, for he painted the " Peace and War," now in the National 
Gallery, London, and the portrait of the king and queen as St. George and 
Cleolinde, a work now at Windsor, and also made sketches for the Apotheosis 
of James I. for the Banqueting-hall at Whitehall, completing the pictures on 
his return to Antwerp. In acknowledgment of his services he was knighted 
by Charles I., by letters-patent dated from Westminster, December 15, 1630, 
and received a similar honor from Philip IV., August 20, 1631. 

In 1630 Peter Paul Rubens married his second wife, Helena Fourment, 
described as a beautiful girl of sixteen, by whom he had five children. By his 
first marriage there were two children, Albert and Nicholas, the elder being 
godson to the Archduke Albert. 

In 1635 he designed the decorations which celebrated the entry of the 
Cardinal Infant Ferdinand into Antwerp as governor of the Netherlands ; and 
having with much difficulty completed a picture of " The Crucifixion of St. 
Peter " for the church dedicated to that saint in Cologne, he died at Antwerp 
on the 30th of May, 1640, and was interred, with great pomp, in the church 
of St. James, his body being deposited, two years afterwards, in a chapel erected 
in the church as a special memorial by his widow, where it is overhung by one 
of his best works, a family picture, with his wives, children and parents in it, 
and himself under the figure of St. George. 

Inscribed on the monument in the chapel, and written by Gevaerts, the 
learned friend and nephev; of Rubens, is an epitaph in Latin, of which this is a 
translation : 

" Here lies Peter Paul Rubens, knight, and lord of Steen, son of John 
Rubens a senator of this city. Gifted with marvelous talents, versed in ancient 
history, a master of all the liberal arts, and of the elegancies of life, he deserved 
to be called the Appelles of his age and of all ages. He won for himself the 



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good will of monarchs and of princely men. Philip IV., King of Spain and the 
Indies, appointed him secretary of his Privy Council, and sent him on an em- 
bassy to the King of England in 1629, when he happily laid the foundations of 
the peace that was soon concluded between those two sovereigns. He died 
in the year of salvation 1640, on the 30th of May, aged sixty-three years." 

The remains of Isabella Brandt, the first wife of Rubens, were not buried 
in her husband's chapel, but were placed in the same tomb with those of his 
mother and of his brother Philip, in the abbey church St. Michael, and over 
them Rubens erected a monument with an inscription. 

Rubens was a most prolific artist; his works number in all several thou- 
sands, of which Smith, in his Catalogue, has described over thirteen hundred; 
and about twelve hundred prints have been executed after his paintings and 
designs, frequently under his personal supervision, by such of the best con- 
temporary engravers as Pontius, Vosterman, Soutman, and Bolswerts. Many 
of his finest works are still at Antwerp ; but his art may probably be most ade- 
quately studied in the Pinakothek at Munich, which contains nearly a hundred 
examples of his brush, several of them ranking with his noblest efforts. Alfred 
Michiels, a biographer of Rubens, affirms that all his pupils became famous : 
Van Dyck, Jordaens, Snyders, Teniers, Gerard Seghers, Juste Van Egmont, 
Erasme Quellyn, van Thulden and Jean Van Hoeck. 

X. 

Nicholas Rubens, Lord of Ramey, son of Peter Paul Rubens and Isa- 
bella Brandt, was baptized in the parish of St. James, Antwerp, March 23, 
1618; died September 28, 1655, in Gestel, a village near Antwerp, and was 
buried there; married October 9, 1640, in St. James' parish, Antwerp, Con- 
stance Helman. 

Their daughter, Helene Fran^oise Rubens, baptized August 26, 1641 ; died 
August 2, 1710; married September 22, 1660, Jean Baptiste Lunden. 

RYSER. 

Generation IX. 
Henri Ryser, of Amsterdam, Holland, married Brigite van Schorel. 
Their daughter, Catherine Rysers, baptized April 10, 1635; died December 
5, 1701 ; married June 16, 1658, Albert Stier. 

SCHILDER. 

Generation XI. 
Adrien Schilder, commissary of provisions of the armies of the Kmg, 
born in Bois-le-Duc, 1549; died in Antwerp, May 26, 1630, aged eighty-one 
years; married June 14, 1600, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, Elizabeth van 
Dueren, his second wife, born 1568; died January 23, 1649. 



212 THE ANCESTRY OF 

X. 

Francois Schilder, merchant and commissary of provisions of the 
armies of the King, son of Adrien and Elizabeth, was baptized September 30, 
1603, in the parish of St. Walburge, Antwerp; died May 9, 1656; married June 
29, 1638, in St. James' parish, Antwerp, Mathilde Gerbrants van Nierop. 

IX. 

Henri Francois Schilder, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, son of 
Frangois and Mathilde, was baptized April 11, 1640, in St. James' parish; died 
between July, 1679, ^"^1 January, 1681 ; married July 18, 1662, in the Cathedral 
of Antwerp, Sybille Bosschaert. 

Their daughter, Marie Mathilde Schilder, baptized June 13, 1666; died 
July 24, 1746; married January 14, 1689, Jacques de Coninck. 



SCHRYNMAECKERS. 

Generation XI. 

Jean Schrynmaeckers, baptized November 14, 1587, in the parish of St. 
George, Antwerp; died between June, 1628, and January, 1629; married Janu- 
ary 23, 1613, in the parish of St. George, Sara Govaerts, baptized July 19, 
1587; died January 18, 1657. 

Their daughter, Elizabeth Schrynmaeckers, baptized June 18, 161 5; died 
December 18, 1672; married January 21, 1634, Louis Le Candele. 



VAN DEN CRUYCE. 

Generation XI. 
JossE VAN DEN Cruyce, of Antwerp, merchant, died between 1580 and 
1588; married 1565, Claire Snellincx. 

X. 

FRAN901S VAN DEN Cruyce, sheriff of Antwerp, son of Josse and Claire, 
baptized November 3, 1568, in the Cathedral at Antwerp; died without a will 
in 1637; married October i, 1606, in St. Andrew's parish, Antwerp, Dymphne 
de Deckere. 

IX. 

Balthazar van den Cruyce, physician, of Brussels, son of Frangois, of 
Antwerp, married Jeanne Eelkens. 

Isabella Marie van den Cruyce, daughter of Balthazar and Jeanne, bap- 
tized January 13, 1653, in the parish of St. Gery, in Brussels; died January 9, 
1721 ; married about 1678, Pascal Ignace van den Cruyce. 



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IX. 

Pascal Francois van den Cruyce, Lord of Aertselaer, Cleydael, etc., 
son of Frangois and Dymphne, baptized April 10, 1609, in the Cathedral of 
Antwerp; died August 30, 1678; married December 5, 1638, in St. James' par- 
ish, Jeanne Catherine Hellemans. He was burgomaster and sheriff of Ant- 
werp; was knighted February 21, 1650, by letters-patent granted by King 
Philip IV. of Spain. 

VIII. 

Pascal Ignace van den Cruyce, Lord of Aertselaer and Cleydael, and 
burgomaster of Antwerp, son of Pascal Franqois and Jeanne Catherine, was 
baptized September 3, 1643, i^i the Cathedral of Antwerp, southern part; died 
August 13, 1713; married about 1678, Isabelle Marie van den Cruyce. 

VII. 

Pascal Jean Augustin van den Cruyce, Lord of Aertselaer and Cley- 
dael, sheriff and burgomaster of Antwerp, son of Pascal Ignace and Isa- 
belle Marie, was baptized June 13, 1679, ^^ the Cathedral of Antwerp; died Feb- 
ruary 23, 1758; married September 21, 1719, in St. James' parish, Antwerp, 
Marie Mathilde de Coninck. 

Their daughter, Mathilde Frangoise van den Cruyce, baptized February 
6, 1724; died March 31, 1796; married February 21, 1747, Jean Gilles Peeters. 



VAN DEN GRAEF. 

Generation XL 
GovAERT Geertssen VAN DEN Graef, citizen of Bois-le-Duc, Holland; 
living there with his wife, Marie van Sambeke, in 161 5. 

X. 

Jean Goyvaertsen van den Graef, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, 
son of Govaert Geertssen van den Graef, was born in Bois-le-Duc ; made free- 
man of Antwerp, June 17, 1599; died February 26, 1656; married November 
5, 1613, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, Anne Marie Moens. 

Their daughter, Anne (Marie) Goyvaertsen van den Graef, baptized July 
14, 1620; died July 14, 1678; married March 14, 1648, Edouard Peeters. 

VAN DER BORCHT. 

Generation XL 
Henri van der Borcht, who probably died in Dunkirk before 1631, mar- 
ried Petronille van Achterhaut, born 1556; died in Antwerp, March 19, 1632, 

aged seventy-two years. 

Their daughter, Marie van der Borcht, married Jacques van Eelen. 

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VAN EELEN. 
Generation XI. 
CoRNEiLLE VAN Eelen, merchant, born in Antwerp, died probably in 
Dunkirk, between 1618 and 1625; married Marie Losson, who was Hving in 
1606. 

X. 

CoRNEiLLE VAN Eelen, son of Corneille and Marie, died before 1655; 
married Laurence Jongerycx. 

X. 

Jacques van Eelen, son of Corneille and Marie (brother of above), died 
before 1655; married Marie van der Borcht. 

Their daughter, Anne van Eelen, died March 29, 1702; married October 
16, 1655, her first cousin, Jean van Eelen. 

IX. 

Jean van Eelen, merchant, son of Corneille and Laurence, born probably 
at Dunkirk; died February 18, 1695, in Antwerp; married October 16, 1655, in 
St. George parish, Antwerp, his first cousin, Anne van Eeelen. He was Lord of 
Merchtem and Westhoven, having been ennobled, March 2, 1681, by letters- 
patent granted by King Charles II. of Spain; knighted by letters-patent of 
April 22, 1682, by same monarch. 

Marie Josephe van Eelen. baptized February 26, 1659; ^i^d January 30, 
1700; married February 16, 1683, Michel Peeters. 

VAN NIEROP. 
Generation XL 

Barthelemi Gerbrants van Nierop, of Antwerp, apothecary, died 
November 16, 1622 ; married October 14, 1614, in the Cathedral of Antwerp, 
Anne Huyghe. 

Their daughter, Mathilde Gerbrants van Nierop, baptized August 17, 
1617; died November 15, 1697; married June 29, 1638, Francois Schilder. 

VAN TETZ. 

Generation VIII. 

GuiLLAUME VAN Tetz, SOU of Gerard van Tetz and Cornelia van Schorel, 
married Sibesta Daemen. 

Their daughter, Cornelia Nicolette van Tetz, baptized June 30, 1678; 
buried in the New Church at Amsterdam, December 9, 1761 ; married in Am- 
sterdam, January 26, 1701, Henri Stier. 

The usual burial tax of the first class, amounting to 30 florins, was paid on 
December 4. She probably died on the 2d or 3d. In the burial tax book, and 
the record of marriage, her name appears as Claesse [Dutch form of Cornelia] 
Nicolette, the name Van Tetz being omitted. 



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VAN WYCK. 

Generation XL 

Jean van Wyck, born in Munster, was made freeman of Antwerp, April 

22, 1569, and died there, September 18, 1595; married about 1570, Madeleine 
Simons, 

X. 

CoRNELis VAN Wyck, silk merchant and almoner of Antwerp, son of Jean 
and Madeleine, born 1584; died September 9, 1669; married about April, 1612, 
Isabelle Charle. 

Their daughter, Barbe van Wyck, baptized February 2, 1618; died March 
16, 1681 ; married February 18, 1643, Gilles de Mont dit de Brialmont. 

VINCQUE. 

Generation XL 

Jean Vincque, merchant and almoner of Antwerp, buried November 24, 
1647. 

X. 

Charles Vincque, of Antwerp, merchant, natural son of Jean above, was 
legitimatized by letters-patent of King Philip IV. of Spain, dated December 

23, 1625 ; died November 25, 1671 ; (was sole heir of his father) ; married July 
15, 1640, in St. James' parish, Antwerp, Anne Marie Cheeus. One of the sons 
of Charles Vincque was ennobled by Charles IL of Spain, by letters-patent 
dated November 24, 1693. 

Catherine Vincque, daughter of Charles and Anne Marie, baptized Novem- 
ber 19, 1645; died January 14, 1718; married February 8, 1668, Louis Le 
Candele. 

WALEWYNS. 
Generation XL 

Jean Walewyns, notary, born in Tirlemont, province of Brabant, 1553; 
died between January, 1605, and January, 1607; married August 24, 1574, in 
the Cathedral of Antwerp, Anne van Couwenberghe, who died about 161 1. 

Their daughter, Anne Walewyns, baptized March 23, 1589; died Novem- 
ber 7, 1652; married July 17, 1612, Frangois Macquereel. 



IV. Rosalie Eugenia Stier, married George Calvert. 
III. Caroline Maria C.\lvert, married Thomas 

Willing Morris. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



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TILGHMAN. 
Generation X. 

Dr. Richard Tilghmax, and Mary his wife, came to America in the year 
1661, and settled at the Hermitage, on Chester River, in Talbot (now Queen 
Anne's) County, Maryland. It is said that he was one of the petitioners to have 
justice done upon Charles the First. It is undeniable that one Richard Tilgh- 
man signed the Petition, and as Dr. Richard Tilghman had been a surgeon in 
the British Navy, and was at this period a Parliamentarian, the signature in 
question was probably his. He was descended from Richard Tilghman, of Hol- 
loway Court, in the Parish of Snodland, Kent County, England, who lived 
about the \ear 1400 ; from his son Thomas Tilghman ; from his son William 
Tilghman, who died 27th August, 1541 ; from his son Richard Tilghman, who 
died in 1518; from his son William Tilghman, who died in 1594, and from his 
son Oswald Tilghman, of London, who was born 4th October, 1579, died in 
1628, and was the father of Dr. Richard Tilghman, the emigrant, who came to 
America in the ship " Ehzabeth and ]\Iary,"' 1661, to settle upon the tract of 
land, on Chester River, granted to him by Lord Baltimore in a patent dated 
17th January, 1659. This lineage was supplied by Mr. William M. Tilghman, of 
Philadelphia, and is to be found in Hanson's Old Kent, page 230. 

Dr. Richard Tilghman, the emigrant, son of Oswald Tilghman, of Lon- 
don, born September 3, 1626; died January 7, 1675; married Mary Foxley, who 
was later executrix of his will, and who survived him for more than twenty 
years. 

Mary Tilghman, widow of Pr. Richard Tilghman, by a deed dated Sep- 
tember 20, 1699 (Talbot County Land Records, volume vii., page 219), conveyed 
to her son Richard Tilghman, certain lands, and charged him with the payment 
of certain monies at her decease, and the purchase of mourning rings for certain 
relatives named, among these being her " son-in-law ]Mr. John Lillingston and 
his present wife." His " present wife " was Mary, daughter of Simon Carpender. 

Matthew Tilghman Ward, of Talbot County, Maryland, in his will dated 
May, 1741, and proved in that county, June 29, 1741, gives a legacy of iioo to 
his " cousin Mary Till, wife of William Till of Philadelphia." 

Matthew Tilghman Ward married first, Mabel Murphey, widow of Captain 
James Murphey, and second, Margaret Lloyd, daughter of Colonel Philemon 
Lloyd. He had no son, but adopted his cousin Matthew, son of Richard and 
Anna Maria Llovd Tilghman. 



'fe' 



Children of Richard Tilghman and Marie Foxley : 

1. Samuel Tilghman, born in England, December 11, 1650. 

2. MARIA TILGHMAN, born in England, February, 1655; married (i) Matthew- 

Ward; (2) Rev. John Lillingston. 

3. William Tilghman, born in England. February 16. 1658. 

4. Deborah Tilghman, born at the Hermitage, March 12, 1666. 

5. Richard Tilghman, born at the Hermitage. February 23, 1672; married Anna 

Maria Llovd. 



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217 



IX. 

Maria (or Mary) Tilghman, daughter of Dr. Richard and Mary, mar- 
ried (i) Matthew Ward, of the Bay-Side, Talbot County, whose will was proved 
October 22, 1677. Their son, Matthew Tilghman Ward, was clerk of St. Paul's 
Parish in 1695, and at the time of his death, May 25, 1741, was President of 
the Council of Maryland. Mary married (2) Rev. John Lillingston, in 1680. 



VIII. George Lillingston, married Elizabeth Watson. 
VII. Mary Lillingston, married William Till. 
VI. Mary Till, married Andrew Hamilton. 
V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 




2i8 THE ANCESTRY OF 



TILL. 

Generation VIIL 

John Till, druggist, of Watlmg Street, London, was married, in 1693, to 
Cassandra Newton, daughter of Thomas and Cassandra Newton, of the city 
of Norwich. The marriage settlement, dated 17th April, 1693, provided that 
she should receive real estate of the clear yearly value of iioo. He died intes- 
tate, in England, prior to January 18, 1719/20. 

The will of Cassandra Till, widow of John Till, was dated November 4, 
1732, and proved November 10, 1732,^ in which she gives to her son William 
Till, then abroad, one shilling and no more. To her daughters, Cassandra, 
wife of Joseph Lea, and Elizabeth Till, spinster, she gave the residue of her real 
and personal estate. The daughter Elizabeth afterward married Alexander 
Elder, and was deceased in 1740. 

In connection with the marriage of John Till and Cassandra Newton is the 
is the following: 

William Archbishop of Canterbury to Thomas Fulkes of the parish of Christ Church, 
London, druggist, greeting. 

Whereas it has been shown on the part of Cassandra Till, widow that certain articles 
of agreement were made between Thomas Newton of the City of Norwich, merchant, of the 
one part, and the said Cassandra Till, by the name of Cassandra Newton, daughter of the 
said Thomas Newton by Cassandra then his wife, and John Till of London druggist of 
the other part, dated 17 April 1693: and by the same Articles it appeared that a marriage 
was to be solemnized between the said John Till & the said Cassandra: and among other 
things the said John Till for the dower of the said Cassandra promised & agreed that if 
he should not during his life assure to her lands & tenements of the clear yearly value 
of £100, that then his heirs and executors should pay to the said Cassandra within 6 
months after the death of the said John iiooo for her sole use : And whereas moreover 
it was shown that the said marriage was afterward solemnized, and that the said John 
Till died intestate & that the said Cassandra was his relict & administratrix : And whereas 
also the said Thomas Newton died intestate having goods in divers dioceses, and no 
Letters of administration of his goods, 8zc. have as yet been granted : Now mature con- 
sideration having been given to the matter administration of the goods of the said Thomas 



1 Abstract of the will of Cassandra Till, London, November 4tli, 1732. 

I Cassander Till, widow of John Till late of Watling Street London, do make my will as follows : 

To my son William Till now abroad V and no more. 

To my daughter Cassander Lea, wife of Jos: Lea & to my daughter Elizabeth Till, spinster, all my real 
& personal estate. 

To Mrs. Eliz. Tomlingson i guinea for her care of me. 

I make my daughter Elizabeth Till my sole executri.x. 
Witnesses : Geo: Friend, John Tomlinson, Sara Lloyd. 

Proved at London 10 Nov. 1732 by the oath of Eliz. Till, daughter & Executrix. (276 Bedford.) 

On the 1st day of October 1740 admon. of the goods of the said Cassander alias Cassandra Till dece'd, 
left unadministered by Eliz. Elder otherwise Till, late wife of Alexander Elder the sole extrix and one of the 
residuary legatees named in the said will, now also deceased, was granted to Cassander alias Cassandra Lea, 
wife of Joseph Lea, the surviving residuary legatee named in the said will. 



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219 



Newton, as far as concerns the right & interest of the said Thomas in the said articles is 
granted to the said Thomas Fulkes. 

Given at London 18 January 1719/20. 

(Administration Act Book A.D. 1719/20, January, folio 7.) 
Children of John Till and Cassandra Newton : 

1. WILLIAM TILL, born about 1697: died about 1766; married January 7, 1720, 

Mary Lillingston. 

2. Cassandra Till, married Joseph Lea. 

3. Elizabeth Till, married after 1732, Alexander Elder; two children. 



VII. 

William Till, son of John and Cassandra, born in England about 1697; 
died in New Castle, Delaware, about 1766.- His marriage on January 7, 1720, 
to Mary Lillingston,^ is recorded at Christ Church, Philadelphia. 

Mary Lillingston was daughter of George Lillingston and Elizabeth 
Watson. 

William Till and his wife settled in Sussex County, on Delaware, probably 
on land previously conveyed to Mary by her step-grandfather, Berkly Codd.* 
The Talbot County, Maryland, Rent Rolls give the following : 

500 acres — William Till and Carpender Lillingston, 20 September, 1720. 

500 acres— William Till and Mary his wife from Matthew Tilghman Ward 
Esq., and Margaret his wife, 24 Aug. 17,34. 

500 acres — William Carmichael from William Till and Mary his wife 6 Sep- 
tember 1734. 

500 acres — Thomas Hynson Wright from William Till Esq. and Mary his 
wife, 3 April 1746. 



* Another William Till, but apparently not related to the above, with his sister Rosamond, they being 
son and daughter of John Till, of Whitegreave, brought a certificate to Friends of Philadelphia from Stafford 
Monthly Meeting, England, dated 2 mo. 11, 1700. Rosamond was married i mo. 12, i7oi/2,at Darby Meeting, 
to Thomas Hallowell, of Darby. William Till, of Philadelphia, joyner, and Ann Warder, daughter of Richard 
Warder of the same place, were married at Philadelphia Meeting, 2 mo. i, 1703. The will of William Till, 
of the City of Philadelphia, joyner, was dated 6 mo. 15, 1711, and proved November 3, 1711, in which he 
devised all estate, real and personal, to his wife, Anne Till, but made no allusion to children. He died 
6 mo. 23, 1711, and a daughter Mary, 9 mo. 11, 1714. 

' The records of Immanuel Church, Newcastle County, show the burial of " Mrs. Till, May, 1791." 

*" Preserved Coggeshall Lawful Attorney to Berkley Codd Esq of this County of Susse.K appeared in 
an open Court of Common Pleas held at Lewes Town in Sussex County the Third day of February Ano Dom: 
1718 and then and there acknowledged and made over, unto Mary Lillingston of the same County Gentle- 
woman by Deed of Gift Duly perfected, and under the Hand and Seal of the above named Berkley Codd 
Two hundred Acres of Land Scituated on the South side of Prime Hook in Sussex aforesaid Butted and 
Bounded as In the said Deed is Expressed according to Law and the Contents of the said Deed." (Sussex 
County Deeds, Liber A, folio 237.) 

The deed for the above land is recorded in Liber D, said records, folio 336, of which the following is 
an abstract : 

Deed dated 6 December, 1716, recites that the land conveyed was portion of a larger tract granted to 
Richard Parrott, some time of .Middlesex County, Virginia, under the hand of Colonel Francis Lovelace, 
sometime Governor of the Province of New York, bearing date 21 June, 1671, which the said Richard Parrott 
by deed of gift conveyed to his son Richard Parrott bearing date 4 June, 1672, which said Richard Parrott 
died intestate, leaving several sons, the eldest of which that was living, Richard Parrott, did on 29 October 



220 THE ANCESTRY OF 

By Deed of Sale dated 29 March, 1720, Berkly Codd, Esq., conveyed to 
William Till, gentleman, one negro woman and three negro boys — Hagar, 
Ishmael, Isaac and Harry. (Sussex County Deeds, Liber D, folio 343.) 

In 1 721 William Till received a patent for land in Sussex County. The 
record of the survey reads : 

William Till Esq. his bounds and courses of Two hundred & Eighty acres of land 
being the one moiety or half of a greater tract of Land which did formerly belong unto 

William Piles and Thomas Cranmer, Described by Patent called bearing date at 

Philadelphia Containing 600 acres of Land Scituate in the County of Sussex Lying 

& being on the West Side of a Tract of Land which did formerly belong unto Luke Wat- 
son deceased. 

The moiety or half part being ye northernmost pt of the above sd Tract of Land 

Containing & Laid Out for 280 acres of Land being Resurveyed and 

Divided the 2y day of January ye present year 1721 by me. 

Robert Shankland 

(Robert Shankland's Field Book, No. I. Surveys and Warrants, p. 183. Recorder's 
OfHce. Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware.) 

By Indenture dated 3 February, 1721, John Wattson, yeoman, and Sarah his wife, 
Convey unto William Till two hundred acres; being part of a tract of land on south side of 
Prime Hook, formerly belonging to Luke Watson deceased, some time of the County, 
called Fairfield, granted under the hand and seal of William Penn, 4 mo. i, 1684 Consider- 
ation money £40. 

(Sussex County Deeds, Liber D, folios 418-420. 

June the 23 1722 

William Till Esq. appeared in the Office and desired me to Record One Negro Girl 
named Nanny lately bought from George Cutts of Philadelphia. Which Negro Girl and 
her son Isaac he hereby gives unto his son Thomas Till and his heirs. Provided his s'd 
son shall live till he be twenty-one years of age. 

Test. Philip Russell 

(Ibid., Liber D, folio 352.) 

28*^^ 12 Mo. 1728. " William Till of Sussex, requests the Grant of about 600 Acres 
of Land in the Broad Kill Neck, for 3 of his wife's Relations, (viz) Thomas Groves, his 
son Luke and daughter Mary, each 200 Acres. This Land appears to have been formerly 
surveyed but to whom is not known and therefore must be delayed for further Enquiry." 

(Minutes of Board of Property, Book I. Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, volume 
xix., page 757.) 

By indenture made April 20, 1730, between William Till, of the County of 
Sussex, merchant, and Mary his wife, of the one part, and Isaac Watson, of the 
said county, yeoman, and Ann his wafe, of the other part, William Till and 
Mary his wife, in consideration of forty pounds, conveyed to the said Isaac 



1708 at Lewistowne alienate and convey to Berkley Codd, Gent., " Now know ye that he the sd Berkley Codd 
for and in consideration of the good will and affection that he has and bears unto his kinswoman Mary 
Lillingston gentlewoman, of the county of Sussex, make over the two hundred acres of Land excepting the 
Right Title & Interest that he had through & by virtue of his marriage with the grandmother of the sd Mary 
Lillingston his now wife Mary Codd gentlewoman, but sometime since Mary Watson Widow & relict of 
T.uke Wattson." 



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Watson and Ann his wife a certain Tract of Land lying on the west side of 
Delaware Bay & on the south side of Cedar Creek, in the County of Sussex, 
Containing three hundred acres of Land Pattented to Luke Watson Jun'r ye 
sixth day, of ye third month, one thousand six hundred and ninety-five. (Sus- 
sex County Deeds, Liber i, folio 425.) 

By virtue of a proprietaries warrant or Resurvey from Benjamin Eastburn Sur- 
veyor General, Bearing Date at Philadelphia, ye 3rd day of Qber, Anno Domini 1733, Re- 
quiring me to Resurvey unto Mr. William Till a Certain tract of Land. The sd Land is 
called Bellamy, quantity one thousand acres of Land; sd Land is Situate In the County ot 
Sussex Lying and being in Prime Hook Neck and on the South side of Slaughter Creek. 
Laid out for one thousand Two hundred and five acres of Land. Resurveyed the sd Day 
of November Anno Domine 1735 

by WiLLi.\M Shankland 

Deputy Surveyor. 

20^1 5 Mo. 1736, Patent signed to William Till, Luke Watson & Thos. Price, 500 
Acres of Marsh on the North side of Slaughter Neck in Sussex Co. Rent, 16: 11 mo. 

(Minutes of Board of Property. Pennsylvania Archives, 3d series, vol. i., page 76.) 

William Till was commissioned a Justice for Sussex County, July 25, 
1726. (Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. ix., p. 665.) He was trustee of the 
Loan Office of Sussex County from 1723 to 1732.'^ Was commissioned Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Lower Counties, October 23, 1736.^ He 
was head of the Supreme Court of the Lower Counties for many years." 



^ " Sussex County on Delaware. 

" Received this 29th day of August 1724 of William Till Trustee of the General Loan Office for 

the aforesaid County One hundred and forty three pounds fifteen shillings in Bills of Credit of the Counties 

of New Castle Kent and Susse.x being the eight part of pd 1150 let out upon Loan pursuant to an Act of 

Assembly passed the Second day of May 1723 Which Sum was regularly & legally sunk in the Town of Lewes 

the day aforesaid. Witness our Seals 

Arch. Smith 

John Roades 

Phil. Russell" 

[William Till's first entry as Trustee of the Loan Office would appear to be 29 August 1723. The 
above is the first receipt, of which are many. The last receipt is given below.] 

" Lewes, October 4th, 1732. 

" Received then of William Till, Trustee of the Loan Office for the County of Sussex, Two 

hundred & six pounds four Shillings & six pence, the full balance of the five thousand pound Act & six 

thousand pound Act, the money that was made to exchange for ragged and torn bills, the whole that was put 

into his hands being Thirty seven Hundred and Seventy pounds. 

Richard Hinman 

John Roades 
(Sussex County Records, Liber F, foHos 435, 439.) Jacob Kollock." 

6 The original commission is in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 

7 By the following commission William Till was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, and his son, 
Thomas Till, of the Inferior Court, of the Lower Counties : 
Pennsylvania "1 A General Dedimus, Potestatum for the Government 



> ss. 



Counties on Delaware / ' the loth of April 1756. 

" George the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the 
Faith &c. To Ryves Holt and William Till Esquires Justices of the Supreme Court, John Vanbebber, 
William Armstrong, Richard McWilliam and David Bush of the County of New Castle, Esquires ; Benjamin 



222 THE ANCESTRY OF 

William Till removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to 1736, and 
engaged extensively in trade. His correspondence with Mr. Lawrence Wil- 
liams, of London, merchant, gives interesting information as to the methods by 
which business was at that time carried on. 

In a letter dated Philadelphia, November 4, 1737, he says: "As I have a 
general acquaintance here & in the Counties & thereby have it more in my 
power to vend European Goods than most persons have shall endeavor to do 
more in that way than what yet I have done & as some small Consignments of 
Goods keep a Store furnished shall be thankfull if you'l be so good as to men- 
tion me to any of your acquaintance who shall be inclined to make a Trial of 
this sort." 

Abstracts from other letters are as follows : 

Phila March 13^11 1740 

My last Via New York the 20'*^ December last since w'^'^ time I have not reced a 
Letter frona You nor have been able to write to You all communication being entirely 
stoped from our neighbouring Provinces by the severity of this Winter & an entire stop 
put to Navigation such a Winter never was known from the time the Country was setled 
to this day our River was so fast ** that Cattle horses &c passed over w*^*^ safety on the Ice 
to the 10*'^ Inst^ & will be yet some days before any ships can pass or go down w*** safety 
the mischief w*^'* have attended the severity as well as length of the Winter are very great 
a vast number of Vessels known to be lost & others not yet heard ofif So that we have had 
of late nothing but acco*^ of losses from Cape Fere or Georgia to Boston all the ships 
bound for this place blown ofif none arrived from London since Charles Smiter, FuUerton 
got into New York & Cap* Smiters Broth' was in Comp*^ w''^ him when he made land & 
I Beleive reached our Capes but was put to Sea by the Ice as it was impossible to ride 
at Anchor at the Capes we hourly expect to hear of the arrival of a considerable Number 
of Ships w*^^ were blown off to the West Indies. For my own part I have had exceeding 
bad luck Tresse " who went out w^^ as good a Brig'^ as belonged to this place was Taken, 



Chew, John Vining, John Brincloe, Andrew Caldwell, John Gooding and Theodore Maurice, of the County 

of Kent, Esquires ; Jacob Kollock, John Clows, Thomas Till, Benjamin Burton and Sheppard Kollock, of 

the County of Sussex, Esquires. Greeting Know that reposing special Trust and Confidence in your 

Loyalty and Integrity We have and by these presents do authorize and Impower you or any of you to 

administer to all Judges, Justices, Sherifs, Coroners and other person and persons whatsoever within the said 

Countys. As well the Oath of Office as also the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and other the usual 

Declarations tests and Qualifications Required Ijy Law to be taken by the said several Ofticers Civil and 

Military to, Qualify them every or any of them, for the Entering upon and Execution of their Several and 

Respective Offices to which they are, or shall be Commissioned, or as any other Occasion may make it 

Requisite and Proper to Tender, or Administer the said several Oaths, tests and Qualifications, or any of 

them to such Officers and other persons. In Testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be made 

patents, by causing the Great Seal of the said Counties to be hereto affixed : Witness Robert Hunter Morris, 

Esquire, by Virtue of a Commission from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn Esquires, True and Absolute 

Proprietaries of the said Counties and with our Royal Approbation Lieut. Governor and Commander in 

Chief of the said Province of Pennsylvaia and Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, on Delaware, at 

Philadelphia the Tenth day of April in the twenty-ninth year of our Reign. 

,0 r- . T^ J T u • r 1- ^ " Robert Hunter Morris." 

(Sussex County Deeds, Liber i., folio loo.) 

8 " Our River has been fast some time, And we hear from Lewes, that 'tis all Ice towards the Sea as far 

as Eye can reach. Tuesday and Wednesday last are thought to have been the coldest Days we have had 

these many Years." — The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 8, 1740/1. 

Boston, October 30, 1740. 

' " On Tuesday last arrived here Capt. Stevens in 23 Days from Lisbon, by whom we have Advice that 

Capt. Seager in a Billander of this Town, and Capt. Tresse in a Vessel belonging to Philadelphia, were both 



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Cap* Peil's Sloop w^^ I loaded for M>' Page for Porto was almost tore to peices w'^ the 
Storms she met w^^ & w^^ great difficulty put into Bermudas where was sold the Cargo on 
acco* of the Insurors by the order of the Governour. . . . 

By the order of the Govern'' & Council ^f' we have now a Prohibition from export- 
ing any Wheat, Corn Flower or any Provisions to any of the Neutral Ports but the Vessels 
cleared out before the order was made will be permitted to go, If we are laid under a 
Prohibition by Act of Parliament to prevent the Shiping ofi provisions we hope twil not 
be extended farther than the Neutral Ports, None of the Kings Subjects have warmer 
wishes for the Success of Admiral Vernon or would willingly lay themselves under a 
greater restraint for the good of the Cause than the People of this place (Some few ex- 
cepted) And they hope care will be taken that our Provisions be exported under Proper 
Convoys that our own People only may be supported by them & none fall to the share of 
the Enemy w'^'^ without this care must unavoidably happen. 

I before wrote You that Dent was Stoped by the winter seting in I make no ques- 
tion you have had my Letters requesting insurance might be made for Seventy three 
hhds of Tobacco well prized & Twenty Tonn of Pig Iron on our joint acco* w^*^ is now on 
board, the ship is called the Robert, Twelve Gunns about 200 Tonn men answerable Law- 
rence Dent Master I mention this as the times are precarious altho I make no doubt that 
you have already made the insurance. 

Capt. Edmond Smiter was at the Capes this Winter & took a Pilot on board but 
was forced to Sea by the Ice as I was this day informed presume he will be in again in a 
few days. 

I have set up our ship w^ii is to be launched the last of September Sixty three foot 
Keel Twenty three foot Beam Ten foot Eight Inches hold four foot Eight Inches between 
decks the Timber on board Smiter will come in time as no ship work could be done this 
Severe Winter, Parrot is an exceeding good Builder & I doubt not will build such a ship 
as you will like You will be pleased to ship her materials so as to arrive in time by Dent 
shall send a List of the perticulars the best direction for Canvass & Rigging & Chanderlary 
ware will be pritty neare the same as yo"" ship Mercury Capt. Hargrave only the shroud 
Harser & Cables lighter 'twil be necessary to have Six four Pounders Twelve Muskets 
four Blunderbusses as I propose to have good close quarters for defence all the News 

we have is that Vernon saild the 4*^ February [torn] Jamaica 

to Carthagene where we wish him good ftorn] 

St obedient Hum^'^ Serv* 

W"» Till 



taken going into Lisbon by a Spanish Barca Longa, both Vessels were carried into Lisbon and Sold there 
with their Cargoes and Grain."— The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 8, 1740/1. 

i** " At a Council held at Philadelphia, Feb. 20. 1740/1. 
A LETTER from Admiral Vernon to His Honour the Lieutenant Governor, being laid before the Board 
and read ; advising. That a Squadron of Twelve Spanish Men of War from 80 to 60 Guns, and Two as large 
French Squadrons from Brest and Toulon, are lately arrived in those Seas ; and from an Opinion that those 
Squadrons will rely upon being supplied with Provisions by the Northern Colonies, either immediately from 
the French Ports before we come to a Rupture with them, or from St. Eustatia or Coracoa afterwards; 
recommending that no one be permitted, at this critical Juncture, to Clear out, without giving sufficient 
Security not to land his Provisions elsewhere than at some one of his Majesty's Colonies. It is the unanimous 
Opinion of this Board, That the proposed Limitation may prove greatly for his Majesty's And the publick 
Service, as it may be a Means of distressing the Enemy. It is therefore hereby Ordered, That the Collector 
of his Majesty's Customs or the Naval Officer of this Port, shall not Clear any Vessel laden or to be laden 
with Provisions of any Sort, until the Master of such Vessel shall have given Bond with sufficient Security to 
His Majesty, in the Naval Office, that the said Provisions shall not directly or indirectly, be carried to, or 
landed in any Port, Harbour or Place in America, subject to any Foreign Prince or State ; but that the same 
shall be actually and bona fide carried to, and landed in some of his Majesty's Dominions in Europe, or in 
some of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or in the Islands Azores, or Madeira, or in some 
Port or Place in Europe subject to some Prince or State in Amity with Great Britain." — The Pennsylvania 
Gazette, February 26, 1740/1. 



224 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Philad^ August the 30^^^ 1740. 

Enclosed is a bill of Exch^ for Two Hundred & Fifty Pounds Sterling drawn on 
Yo''Self on acco* of Mess''" Leybourne Roffey & Rockcliff Merch*^ In Lisbon by their order 
being for the half part of the Cargo shiped on a joint acco' on the Brig'^ Lawrel Hugh 
Tresse Master w''' please to pass to the Credit of my acco* the neat proceeds of the 
other half of the Cargo you will please to give Credit when the Remittance shall be made, 
Wright does not yet appear but daily wished for. his tedious long Voyage can only be 
attributed to the Effect of Warr & if it be some inconvenience to us we must be content 
the People of England sufi'er a great deal more they not only have their disapointm*^^ but 
have the addition of Multitude of Taxes but who would not sufifer much more to have 
those Greviances redressed w"^^^ the Nation have so long felt, if after all we can have Peace 
setled w'^'^ a full Liberty of Navigation Trade & Commerce we shall then look back w*^*^ 
pleasure & think w'^ delight on this just & necessary Warr vv'^'* His Majesty to his Im- 
mortal Honour has begun in favour of His Subjects I am S'' 

Yo'' most Obedient Hum^^^ Serv* 

W^ Till 



Phil*^ December the 2'^ 1740 

I reeled Yo'''^ by Cap' Bell this day w'^'^ the Coppy of those recied before & am 
exceeding sorry you were disapointed in your expectation in relation to yo'' order for 
Wheat of the 31'*'^ January & I beg you will excuse it as twas not neglect but fearfuUness 
in exceeding the orders by paying the freight here w^^^ was new to us but complyed w*^^ 
by many & no ship when I reced yo'' Letter to be had without doing it. . . . 

I have agreed to Load a schooner w*^ Wheat for M' John Page & shall dispatch her 
away in a few days, for Porto please to get insured on his acco* Four Hundred & fifty 
Pounds Sterling & One Hundred Seventy five Pounds Sterling w^^^^ Jonathan Miflin desires 
you will get insured on his acco' on the Schooner & charge him w'^ the same she's called 
the Seaflower Peter Hunter Master. 

I am truly concerned at my Sisters distress & wish I could be usefull to her but 
then she does not acquaint me. how her affairs are she has two Children unprovided for, 
the Eldest is fifteen I think a lad, if I can be of any Service she must send him to me 
& I will put him to that sort of Life he appears most fit tis not unlikely he may sooner 
be put into a way to live here than at home if her distress arises from a negligent or ex- 
pensive Husband I think tvvould be but right that I have my Share of Lord Yarmouths 
debt shall be thankfull for your assistance to get the same as I presume unless another 
Will is made by My Sister Eliz^ I am become heir to her. if the old papers were exam- 
ined there should be several notes from Lord Yarmouth to my Grand Father Newton of 
Norfolk & we ought to be paid out of his Est^ as Yarmouth destroyed both my Father 
& Grand Father, the first in lending his Cash the latter in following his Schemes & pleas- 
ure, by w'^^ conduct I was sent grazing in America & lost from my Grand Father what I 
otherwise might have had, a good Landed Est'"^ in England 

When the affair is made up w'^'^ Cap*^ Cleveland you will please to get of the in- 
surers whatever may be allowed as also the damages w'^'^ accrued on the great quantity 
of Wheat pumped out of the ship w'''* is upward of 1000 bush" M''. Leyborn will send the 
acco*^ we have no News to add & I am sure it will be none when I tell You that I am 
^th great Esteem S'" 

Yo'' most Hum'^ie Serv* 

Wn» Till 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 225 



M' Morton Rockclifif 

to the Care of Mr. Law. Williams 

London 

Philad'^ January 28*^^ 1744/5 
Dear S'' 

I hope I may Congratulate You on y-- Safe a[rrival] in your Native Country & that 
you met w^^ all Comfort & Satisfaction You may wish. 

I am not suprized the Af¥air of Privateering, I am sensible it is no 

service Trade, but whether he likes or dislikes there will be the same 

[numb]er of Privateers sent from Philad^ If you decline having to do [with an]y of 
them pray let me have the part you are to have of the Warren, w^^ is not a bad Scheeme 
She & the Old George have sent in a Ship & Snow said n to be worth Twenty thousand 
Pounds, We are Landing the Cargoes, as I proposed the engagement pray Let me take 
you out of it, if you decline any further Adventure and Since tis not agreable to M"^ 
Williams. 

Yo'' Most obedt Humble Serv* 

Wn» Till 

Philad* October the 26^^ 1741 
Ml' Law'' Williams 

S^" I recied yo'' Letter of the S'^ of August last by Cap* Redmond yesterday 

I desire you will by the first good opportunity ship the plate &c. according to the 
enclosed list for my Daughter who will be married to M'' Andrew Hamilton in a short 
time, let the Cypher be as directed you shall not be long w*^ out a Bill for the Cost 
thereof, let them be insured to the Valine. I am .S'' 

Yo"" most Hum^^'e ggrv* 

W^ Till 



11 " On ■Wednesday last arrived the Prize Sloop mentioned on our last to be taken by Captain Dowell. 
She was bound for Bordeau.x, the Master's Name Cannonier. And on Friday a Ship and Snow, from the 
■Warren Privateer, Alexander Kattur, and the Old George Schooner, ■William Dougall, Commanders, who 
sailed from this place about six ■Weeks ago in Consort. Seven Days after they left the Capes, in the 
Latitude of 31, they met with the Ship, which proved to be the same that Captain Dowell engaged eight Days 
before. She is a Frigate built Ship, of 18 Carriage Guns, belongs to St. Malo's, and was thither bound. 
She is called the Lewis Joseph. The Captain's Name was Piedsnoirs. Her Compliment was Sixty Men; 
but in the Beginning of the Engagement there were but Fifty-three. She maintained an obstinate Fight for 
Five Hours, and did not surrender, till she had received near Fifty Shot in her Hull, and was at last boarded, 
and the Captain, his second Lieutenant, and four Men killed, and several of the Gentlemen Passengers 
wounded. The Capt: had the Character of a gallant Man, and, as the Prisoners say, always declared, that 
he would never part with the Ship but with his Life. Our Privateers behaved with great Bravery, the 
greatest Part of the Engagement being within Pistol Shot. The Ship is lofty, and had double Nettings and 
Bags of Cotton, Man's Heighth, fore and aft. The Captain, it is said, was killed with a Pistol Ball by the 
Captain of the Schooner, just before they boarded the Ship. The Snow is called the St. .\nne, Pierre Dalheu 
Master, bound to Bourdeaux and was taken two Days after the Ship. The Ship's Cargo consists of 376 
Hogsheads of white Sugar, and 15 brown ; 32 Hogsheads of Indigo, and 20 Barrels ditto ; 1500 Livres worth 
of Deer Skins ; i Chest of Coral, worth 5000 Livres, besides the Adventures of the Captain and Otficers, 
which are said to be of 'Value. The Snow's Cargo consists of 196 Hogsheads of brown Sugar, 25 Tierce 
ditto, and 10 Hogsheads white ; 20 Hogsheads, 7 Pipes, and 39 Tierce Indigo, and 3 Tierce of Coffee. The 
Sloop has on board 100 Hogsheads of Sugar, and eight of Indigo. We are daily expecting the two Privateers 
in. Captain Kattur having lost both his Masts, and Captain Dougall his Foremast, just below the Hounds. 
In the Engagement they had one Man killed on board the Snow, and four wounded ; and four killed and 
eleven wounded, on board the Schooner, some of them very badly. 

"We hear there is another Prize coming up, a Brigantine, taken by the above two Privateers." 

— The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 22, 1744/5. 

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226 THE ANCESTRY OF 



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I Set of Tea plate Viz'' 

Tea pot & stand, slop bowl, sugar Dish 

& Milk pot 
twelve Tea spoons, Tongs & strainer 
about for spoons 
a large Coffee pot 
a Salver for eight glasses 
One pair candle Sticks & two 

Sauce boats 

1 pair Snuffers & Stand 

2 Casses of silver hafted Knives 

& forks the one Table, & the other 

desert 
a fashion'''^ p^ji- ^f Earings ten or 

fifteen guineas price 
to be Insured 

To be marked A M in a Cypher my Sister 

can direct a Coat of Arms to be put on 
the plate then the Cypher will be 
unnecessary 

Philadelphia June i^' 174J 



s 

This Day I returned from Maryland, where I left M'' Rockcliff in very good health 
I had the pleasure to introduce him to a good many of my Acquaintances there & much 
to his Satisfaction without entring into Particulars we met w*^*^ a most Hearty welcome 
& Reception everything succeeded according to our Wishes & a Gen^^ Inclination to ship 
to you I Dare say you have been long enough acquainted with the People of Maryland 
to know they will complain & use the Lond"^ Merch*^ with a Good Deal of Freedome but 
probably more so at this time than usuall as the Price of Tobb. runs low & leaves little 
for Neat proceeds however I endeavoured to convince them they were not altogether 
without Fault, the Tobb. I saw among them was farr from being good & that twas impos- 
sible for any Gent" to sell a Comodity bad in itself at a great Price. 1 made use of every 
other Argument to remove their Prejudices or rather clamour & left them in perfect 
good humour & much at y'' Service. . . . 

Nothing can be more melancholy than the State of our Trade in respect to English 
Goods hardly anything goes ofif but in a Slow manner & low prices, however must not 
entirely give up as Matters may mend, have enclosed a List for a few to be shipt for 
Sortment with those unsold w'^'^ ship as Speedyly as Possible 

Your most Hum^^® Serv*. 
W^ Till 

A List of Goods sent for to be shipt by i"*^ Opportunity 
25 ps Tandem Linnen 
50 p^ 7/8 Garlix 
2 Roles best ossenbriggs 
20 ps Single Sletias 
Broad cloth for my Self 

with Lining & triming 

for a suit of fashion^^^ Colour 
A Riding Coat of fashi^^ie Drabb 

colour w*'^ trimings either 

in y^ Cloth or made up for 

my Self 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 227 

10 Chests Bohea Tea when to be 

bought Cheap 
2 Chests Green D° 
a Book of Rates 
A Grizill Bobb Wigg for myself 
2 Casks Pewter as usuall 
1 Hansom Velvet Joky Cap for 

my Daughter. 

Deed, April 10, 1756. Mary Hamilton, of Philadelphia, widow, and Wil- 
liam Till, of New Castle upon Delaware, Esq., to William Allen, Esq., recites : 

Whereas Andrew Hamilton late of the said City, Gentleman, dec*^, late Husband of 
the said Mary, by his will, dated August 27, 1747, did devise unto the said Mary, his House 
and Lot in Walnut street and the vacant Lot extending from that house to the corner of 
Third street; containing in depth Northward 100 feet, then in the possession of Richard 
Peters and since William Cox etc. And whereas it was lately agreed between the said 
Mary Hamilton and the said William Till that in consideration of his building a House 
upon and improving the part of the said vacant lot etc. . . . To be held in Trust for the 
use and behoof of the said Mary Hamilton, William Till and Mary his wife as joint ten- 
ants for life and after the death of the survivor of them to Andrew Hamilton, the son of 
Mary, and his heirs; or if he die before coming of age to his brother William Hamilton. 
(Philadelphia Deeds, Liber H 5, folio 543.) 

Deed, May 22, 1759. William Till, Esq., of New Castle, and Mary his 
wife, convey by their attorney. Captain John McClagham, of New Castle, to 
Daniel McLonen, of the same, innkeeper. (New Castle Deeds, Liber T. I., 
folio 87.) 

Mary, widow of William Till, Esq., late prothonotary of Court of Com- 
mon Pleas at New Castle, deceased (Mary Hamilton and Andrew Hamilton, 
Executors, etc.), constitutes Thomas Maurice, of New Castle, her attorney. (New 
Castle Deeds, Liber J, folio 513.) 

By an mdenture of October 30, 1780, Mary Till, of the city of Philadel- 
phia, widow of William Till, late of the town of New Castle, in consideration 
of an annuity granted to her by her grandson William Hamilton, of the 
" Woodlands," released unto one Richard Mason, the messuage and lot on 
Water Street, above High Street, and extending into the river Delaware, which 
had been conveyed to said Mason by William Hamilton. And which property 
had been devised to the said Mary Till for life by her husband William Till, 
and at her death the rents of same to their daughter, Alary Hamilton, until the 
said William Hamilton should be of age. (Philadelphia Deeds, Liber D, 2, 

folio 352.) 

William Till was a member of the vestry of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 

in 1736 and 1737, and church warden in 1739. 

On March 22, 1738, he was commissioned Justice of the Peace and Courts 
of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. ix., p. 707); on October 
2, 1739, he became a member of the Common Council, and on October 6, 1741, 
was 'appointed an alderman (ibid., pp. 73^, 7y:>)- I" 174^ l^e was called to 



228 THE ANCESTRY OF 

the Provincial Council/- and served until his death (ibid., p. 626). In 1742 
he became Mayor of the City of Philadelphia (ibid., p. 729). From 1743 to 
1750 he was one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (ibid., 
p. 631). On December 9, 1748, he was made Prothonotary of the Court of 
Common Pleas for New Castle County, and from May 9, 1747, until his death, 
was Collector of the Port of New Castle. ^^ 

By his will, dated July 16, 1761, proved May 8, 1766, William Till, of the 
town of New Castle, in the County of New Castle, Esquire, bequeathed to his 



i^William Till was a member of the Provincial Council when, with others, he was appointed a Justice of 
Sussex County by the following commission : 

" George ye third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the 
Faith & so fourth, to James Hamilton, William Till, Benjamin Shoemaker, Lawrence Growden, Joseph 
Turner, William Logan, Richard Peters, Lynford Lardner, Benjamin Chew, Thomas Cadwalader and 
Richard Penn, Esquires, Members of the proprietary and Governors Council. And to Jacob KoUock Sen'r, 
Benjamin Stockley, David Hall, Benjamin Burton, Nehemiah Draper, Thomas Prettyman, Jacob Kollock 
Jun'r.,John Spencer, Isaac Wattson, Wrexham Lewes, Gilbelsher Parker, Leven Cropper and Thomas 
Robenson, all of the County of Sussex on Delaware, Esquires, Greeting Reposing special Trust and 
Confidences in your Loyalty Integrity and Ability, Know yee that we have assigned you jointly and Severally 
our Justices of Our peace in the county aforesaid, to keep all Laws and Statutes made for the Good of Our 
Peace, and for the Conservation of the same, to keep and cause to be kept, and to chastize and punish all 
persons offending against the Laws & Statutes within the said County of Sussex, as the Law doth direct. 
We have also assigned you or any three or more of you Justices, to Enquire by the Oaths or affirmations of 
Good and Lawful men of the said County of Sussex, by whom the Truth of the matter may be the better 
known of all and all manner of Felonies and other Misdeeds and offences whatsoever of which Justices of 
Oyer and Terminer and General Goal delivery or Justices of the Peace according to the Laws of Great 
Britain and of our said Government may or Ought to Enquire, and to Inspect all Indictments before you or any 
of you taken, or taken before others. Late justices of the peace for the said County of Sussex, and not as 
yet Determined, and to make and to continue the process thereupon, and to hear and Determine According 
to Law, all Crimes and offences whatsoever, properly Determinable before you, and to chastize and punish 
all persons offending in the premises by Fines Forfeitures or otherwise as the Law doth or shall direct, and 
therefore you are hereby strictly Commanded that you diligently attend the keeping of the peace and Laws & 
Statutes and all and Singular the premises, and at Certain days and Times & places, which by the Constitution 
of our Said Government are appointed you, make Enquiry upon the premises and hear and determine, 
perform and fulfill the same, doing therein that which to justice, According to Law, shall appertain. And we 
have Appointed you the said James Hamilton, William Till, Benjamin Shoemaker, Lawrence Gowden, 
Joseph Turner, William Logan, Richard Peters, Lynford Lardner, Benjamin Chew, Thomas Cadwalader, 
Richard Penn, Jacob Kollock, Sen'r, Benjamin Stockley, D.ivid Hall, Benjamin Burton, Nehemiah Draper, 
Thomas Prettyman, Jacob Kollock funr, John Spencer, Isaac Wattson, Wrexham Lewes, Gilbersher 
Parker, Leven Cropper and Thomas Robenson, Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County 
of Sussex, re(|uiring and commanding any three or more of you to hold pleas of Assize Scire Faceas replevens 
and to hear and determine all, and all manner of pleas. Actions, Suits and Causes, Civil, personal, real or 
mixed, now depending or which shall hereafter be commenced in the said Court, according to Law, and also 
to hold Special Courts for the more Speedy determination of causes of such defendants as are about to 
depart the said Government, pursuant to the said Constitution. And also we constitute and appoint and 
give full power and authority unto any one or more, of you the said justices who have been Qualified by 
Taking the Oath Distinctly & separately from such of your Number as by the Laws of the said Government 
are only Qualified by Affirmation, to administer as well in the Courts while sitting, as Out of the Same, All 
and Every such Oath and Oaths as shall be found necessary for doing of Justice. In Testimony whereof we 
have Caused the Great Seal of Our Said Government to be hereunto affixed. Witness John Penn, Esquire 
(by virtue of a Commission from Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, E^squires, True and absolute proprietaries 
of the said Government with our royal approbation) Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Cheaf of the 
Government and Province of Pensilvania At New Castle, the first day of November in the year of our Lord 
One Thousand seven iiundred and sixty-four and the fifth year of our reign. (Sussex County Deeds, Liber A, 
folio 324.) 

'3 The original commissions, appointing William Till Prothonotary and Collector, are in the collection 
of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 



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ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 229 



wife, for life, his house, stores, lot of ground and wharf in Water Street, in 
Philadelphia, then in the tenure of Samuel Smith, and after his wife's decease 
the rents and profits from said property, to his daughter Mary Hamilton, until 
his grandson William Hamilton became of age, and then to the said grand- 
son. 

To his wife he also gave all his plate, linen and household goods, his 
negro woman Sal, a negro girl called Dark, and seven hundred pounds; also 
the rents from a lease granted to Robert McMurphy for a plantation and 
marshes on Prime Hook in the County of Sussex. 

He devised to his daughter Mary Hamilton, one thousand pounds and 
his negro man Scipio. To his grandson William Hamilton, five hundred 
pounds, when of age, until which time the interest on the same was to be paid 
to his mother Mary Hamilton. 

To his grandson William Till he devised the plantation where his son 
Thomas Till lately dwelt, lying on Prime Hook, in Sussex County, purchased 
of the Watsons, containing four hundred acres, then occupied by Robert 
McMurphy, together with twelve hundred acres, on Slaughter Branch, called 
the Poplar plantation. 

He confirmed the deed and settlement made between himself and his 
daughter Mary Hamilton, respecting the houses and buildings, by him executed 
on the land whereon his daughter then resided in the city of Philadelphia. The 
residue of his estate was bequeathed to his grandsons Andrew Hamilton and 
William Till; to the latter when of age. His wife Mary Till, daughter Mary 
Hamilton, and grandson Andrew Hamilton, were appointed executors. Wit- 
nessed by Will Humphreys, Benjamin Chew and Will Coxe. (Philadelphia 
Wills, Liber N, folio 533.) 

Children of William Till and Mary Lillingston : 

1. MARY TILL, died October 18. 1803, aged eighty-one years; married December 

24, 1741, Andrew Hamilton. 

2. Thomas Till, of Sussex County, married June 18, 1752, Gertrude Ross, of New- 

castle County.i* Thomas Till was captain of a Sussex County Regi- 
ment in 1756 and 1758.^^ 



VL Mary Till, married Andrew Hamilton. 

V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 

II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



"Records of Trinity Church, Oxford, Philadelphia County. 
15 Pennsylvania .Archives, 2d series, vol. ii. (1876), pp. 529, 579. 



230 THE ANCESTRY OF 



VAN DEN CRUYCE. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

VAN DEN GRAEF. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

VAN DER BORCHT. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

VAN EELEN. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

VAN NIEROP. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 

VAN WYCK. 

Generation XL 

See Stier Record. 

VINCQUE. 

Generation XI, 

See Stier Record. 

WALEWYNS. 

Generation XI. 

See Stier Record. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 231 



WATSON. 

Generation XL 

John Watson married Elizabeth Frost, daughter of WiUiam Frost, as 
shown by the will of said William Frost, of Fairfield, Connecticut, who died in 
1645. Whether John Watson came to this country is uncertain. His widow 
married, prior to 1645, John Gray, and with him and her children removed to 
Newtown, Long Island, and thence to Jamaica, on the same island. 

Children of John Watson and Elizabeth Frost : 

1. LUKE WATSON, born about 1630; died 1705; married (i) Sarah ; (2) 

Margery Smith; (3) Sarah . 

2. Susanna Watson. 

3. Joanna Watson. 

X. 

Luke Watson, son of John and Elizabeth, was probably born in Eng- 
land about 1630. The name of his first wife, who was with one exception the 
mother of his children, was Sarah, but her family name is unknown. Their 
children, Sarah, Elizabeth and Isaac, were baptized at the Dutch Reformed 
Church, in New York, May 16, 1677, at which time Elizabeth was about three 
and a half years of age. Not long prior to January 19, 1680/1, Luke Watson 
married his second wife, Margery, daughter of Captain Henry Smith. His 
third wife, Sarah, was evidently a widow Paynter.^ 

Luke Watson, on August 6, 1659, w^as one of the four men chosen at 
Jamaica " to be presented for magistrate to y® Governor." 

In a sketch of Captain Bryan Newton, of Jamaica, Long Island (New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Record, July, 1876), it is stated that " in March 
1663, he bought of Luke Watson, of Crafford (the new English name of Rust- 
dorp, afterwards Jamaica), a house and home-lot. Watson engaged to build a 
barn on it, forty-two feet long and twenty feet deep, to be thatched, its sides and 
ends boarded, with a lean-to on one side. The Captain was to find twelve boards 
for doors, and nails for the whole. This for the period and state of the country, 
was quite respectable." 

Luke Watson was one of the few men who founded the first English set- 
tlement in what became New Jersey. On September 26, 1664, four weeks after 
the surrender of New York by the Dutch to the Enghsh, a petition was 
addressed to Governor Nicholls by John Bailies, Daniel Denton, Thomas 
Benydick, Nathaniel Denton, John Foster and Luke Watson, of Jamaica, for 



1 Letters of administration on the estate of Sarah Watson, widow of Captain Luke Watson, deceased, 
were granted to Richard Paynter, of Sussex County, yeoman, his " Eldest Brother John Paynter having 
Renounced his right" to administer the goods of their "Mother deceased." Lewes, March 25, 1707. 
(Recorder's Office, Sussex County, Delaware, Liber Q, No. 16, folio 33.) 



232 THE ANCESTRY OF 

liberty to purchase and settle a large tract of land in this province. Four days 
later the prayer of the petitioners was granted, and on the 28th of the follow- 
ing month, Bailey, Denton and Watson having concluded their negotiations 
with the Indian chiefs for the purchase of the lands,^ the Governor, on the ist 
of December following, issued his patent for the purchase thus made, to " Capt. 
John Baker of New Yorke, John Ogden of North-hampton, John Baily and 
Luke Watson of Jemaica on Long Island and their Associates." 

The land covered by this patent extended from the mouth of the Raritan 
on the south to the mouth of the Passaic on the north, a distance of not less 
than seventeen miles, and running back into the country twice that distance; 
embracing the towns of Woodbridge and Piscataway, the whole of the present 
Union County, a part of the towns of Newark and Clinton, a small part of Mor- 
ris County, and a considerable portion of Somerset County, containing about 
500,000 acres. 

Shortly after the granting of the patent, Luke Watson removed to and 
became active in establishing the new settlement. Although the last named 
of the petitioners of 1664, he seems to have been the only one of them who 
retained an interest in the enterprise, and became one of the founders of Eliza- 
beth. On May 7, 1666, a " Hue and Cry " was entered on the records, respect- 
ing Robert Gray, a servant belonging to Luke Watson, twenty years old, sup- 
posed to have run away with Rudric Powell. 

On August 24, 1668, Luke Watson was commissioned by Governor Car- 
teret, " Lieutenant and Commander " of the first military organization in the 
town, but for some reason this was revoked in October, 1670, when he was 
required " upon pain of death at that time not to call the Company into the 
Field nor Exercise them : " a command which he disregarded by " continueing 
to exercise them twice after." In 1676 he removed with his family and made a 
settlement at the Whorekill, now Lewes, Delaware, where he continued to reside 
until his death. Here he received the appointment by Governor Andros, 18 
October, 1678, and 7 June, 1680,^ as one of the Justices at the Whorekill. On 
the accession of William Penn to the government of Pennsylvania and the 
three counties now forming Delaware, Luke Watson was continued in the judi- 
cial position* until his death, a period in all of twenty-seven years. In 1682/3 



'■^The record of this deed is to be found at Trenton, New Jersey : 

October 28, 1664, Indian Deed : Mattano, Manamowaone and Cowescomen of Staten Island to John 
Bayly, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson of Jamaica, Long Island, husbandmen, for land, bounded South by 
the Raritan River, East by the river dividing Staten Island from the mainland, and running Northward up 
After Cull Bay to the first river setting Westward. In consideration of twenty fathoms of cloth, two made 
cotes, two guns, two kettles, ten bars of lead, twenty handfuls of powder and four hundred fathoms of white 
or two hundred fathoms of black wampum, payable one year after taking possession. The wampum was 
received August 8, 1665. Witnessed William Pardon, Deputy Secretary, Warinuck and Charles Horsley. 
Receipt of wampum witnessed by Samuel Edsall and James Bollen. (East Jersey Patents, Liber No. i, 
folio i.) 

'" Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix. (1880), p. 612. 

* " William Penn Esqr Proprietary & Governor of Pensilvania New Castle St Jones Whorekill at New 
Deale With their proper Liberty's : 

" I doe in the Kings name hereby Constitute & Authorize you Luke Wattson, William Clark, John 
Rhoads, John Avery and Halmanus Wiltbank, or any three of you to be Justices of the peace and Courts of 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 233 



he was one of the representatives from his County of Sussex to the first Assem- 
bly which met under Penn's government, and was again chosen in 1687, 1694 
and 1697.^ In 1683, 1688, 1689 and 1690 he was a member of the Provincial 
Council,^ and in 1703 and 1704 was high sheriff of Sussex County.'^ In Novem- 
ber, 1682, he enjoyed the honor of being one of those called to witness the for- 
mal delivery to Penn of the counties of " St. Jones and Whorekill," now Kent 
and Sussex. The county records show that he was a large landed proprietor, 
and that he conveyed a considerable part of his lands to his sons. To one of his 
plantations he gave the name of Fairfield. 

The following copies of records of Sussex County, Delaware, are of 
interest : 

Edward Southeren and Mary his wife conveyed 10 September, 1677, tract of land 
containing 106 acres called St Gillis for the consideration of 4000 pounds of tobacco to 
Luke Watson. (Liber B, folio 66.) 

At a Court held for the Whorekill the 9th day of September Anno Dom. 1679 Com- 
missioners present Capt John Avery, Mr. Alexander Molleston, Mr. Luke Watson, 
Mr. John Rhoads, Mr. James Wells. 

Memorandum for grants of Land upon petition of Several persons vizt — 
Luke Watson and his four sons, named Luke Watson Junr, John Watson and 
Isaac Watson . . . for himself according to former warrant 1000 Acres and for each 
of his said Sons 250 Apiece Cont. in all 2000. (Liber A, folio 105.) 

Articles of Agreement made 19th January 1680/1 between Henry Smith of the one 
party and Luke Watson of the other Witnesseth that the said Henry doe give unto his 
Daughter Margery that is now the wife of the said Luke for her life time 300 acres of 
land and if she should have issue to her and his heirs. If the said Margery should die 
before her husband without issue then the said Luke Watson is to have that 300 acres 
made up the Quantity of 500, paying unto the said Henry Smith 15,000 lbs. tobacco Land 
lying and being In Prime hook near unto Deal. 

Thomas Morgan 
Elizabeth Davids 

(Liber B, folio 82.) 

At a Court held at Lewes, 11 of 10 mo 1683 — Commissioners present, William Clark, 
Luke Watson, John Rhoads, Alexander Molleston & Hercules Shepherd. 



Judicature for the County of Whorekill att New Deal : to act in the said Imployment and Justices of the 
Province Hereby Willing and Charging all persons within the said Limits to take notice hereof, and accord- 
ingly to yield you all diie and Just obedience in the discharge of your said Trust, and the Commission to be 
of force for the tearms of one whole year from the date hereof, or until further order. Given under my hand 

and seal In New Castle this, 7th day of Nov. 1682. 

" Wm. Penn. 

"To My Loving ffriends 

Luke Watson 

Wm. Clark 

John Roades 

John Avery 

Halmanus Willbank " 

(From the Old Court Docket, Sussex County.) 

5" Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix. (1880), pp. 667, 668, 669; 6 ibid., p. 626; nbid.,p. 662. 



234 



THE ANCESTRY OF 



William Prentice bill of sale for Three Hundred acres of land to Luke Watson. 
Know all men by these presents that I William Prentice of the County of Somersett 
planter hath sold unto Mr. Luke Watson of Lewes, one tract of land containing Three 
Hundred acres formerly surveyed by Mr. Francis Jenkins, Lying on the North side of 
Slarter Creek near prime hook, to have and to hold the aforesaid tract of Land, to him the 
said Luke Watson his heirs forever, from me and my heirs or any other person claiming 
in through or by me, having received full satisfaction for the same as witness my hand 
and seal this 30 July 1683. 

Henry Smith his 

Thomas Pettly ^^^^^ William X Prentice 

mark 
(Liber A, folio 23.) 

At a Court held Lewes, 8th 9th loth and nth days of 12 month 1686. 
Commissioners present William Clark, President, John Rhoads, Samuel Gray, Rob- 
ert Clifton, George Young & Thomas Price. 

Luke Watson petitioned for A Town Lott fronting the Creek on the South side 
of that street that goes up to the place where the Court House shall be built, the Lott 
formerly granted to William Darvall but now clear, which if clear the Court grants on 
the same Condition. (Liber A, folio 37.) 

At Court held Lewes 2 & 3 days of the first Month 1692, Justices prest. Wm. Clark 
president, Luke Watson, John Hill, Robert Clifton, Samuel Gray. 

Justice Luke Wattson acknowledged unto his four sons vizt. Luke Watson Junr, 
John Watson, Samuel Watson and Isaac Watson Four hundred acres of Marsh, according 
to the Contents of a deed of gift or Instrument of writing bearing date the second day of 
March Anno Dom : 1691/2. (Liber A, folio 135.) 

At a County Court or Court of Common Pleas held in their Majesties' Name at 
Lewes for this County of Sussex fifth day of September Anno Dom 1694. 

Justices present Luke Wattson Sen. Robert Clifton, Samuel Gray, John Stockley. 
Joseph Booth, Esqres. 

Luke Watson Senr acknowledged In Open Court Two hundred Acres of Land at 
Prime Hook In this County, unto Luke Watson Junr and his Heirs forever as by Deed 
of Gift dated the fourth of September 1694. (Liber A, folio 168.) 

At an Orphans Court held at Lewes for the County of Sussex by his Majestie's 
authority and in the Proprietaries name the 7 day of March 1698/9 

Justices present Mr. Wm. Clark, 

Capt Luke Watson, 
Mr. Thomas Oldman, 
Mr. Joseph Booth. 

Capt Luke Wattson and sons Acct agt Bellamys Estate, (being psnt Administrators 
of the same), was produced Amounting to the sum of £538,11,9^, Wherein their account 
of debts and other reasonable disbursements by discharges attestation, And so the Court 
having strictly examined pass and allow the sd Account Recorded verbatim from a copy 
taken of an Old record Book by 

me 

Philip Russell, Reg. 
(Liber Q, folio 264.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 235 

At a Court held at Lewes for the County of Sussex on 7th 8th & 9th days of June 
1698 Justices present Captain Luke Watson, Mr. John Hill, Mr. Thomas Oldman, Mr. 
Jonathan Bailey and Mr. John Walton. 

Capt Luke Watson appeared in Open Court and acknowledged declared and deliv- 
ered unto his son John Watson two hundred acres of Land Scituate Lying and being att 
Prime Hook in the County of Sussex by deed of gift bearing date the 6th of December 

1697. 

Captain Luke Watson acknowledged declared and delivered in Open Court unto his 
youngest son Isaac Watson, A deed of gift for Two Hundred Acres of Land situate Lying 
and being at Prime Hook in this County, bearing date the 6 December, 1697. (Liber A, 
folio 75.) 

At a Court held at Lewes for the County of Sussex, the 4th day of February Anno 
Dom 1700. Justices present — Mr. William Clark, Mr. John Hill, Mr. Luke Wattson 
Junr, Mr. James Walker, Mr. Phillip Russell. 

Capt. Luke Wattson Senr appeared personally in Court and by deed of gift acknowl- 
edged in Open Court unto his daughter Elizabeth Wattson, Three Hundred Acres of 
meadow and Wood Land more or less in the County Bounded by Prime Hook Creek on 
the one side and Green Branch Creek on the other side to her & her heirs forever accord- 
ing to the contents of the said deed bearing date the 7 day of the 7 mo Ano 1700 . . . 
(Liber A, Folio 84.) 

At a Court of Common Pleas held at Lewes for the County of Sussex upon Delaware, 
the 7 day of August 1705, before John Hill, Thomas Fisher, James Walker, Philip Russell, 
William Baywell & John Walton BIsqs., Capt Luke Watson High Sheriff of this County 
appeared in Open Court and by virtue of his said Ofifice Acknowledged and made over, 
unto William Burton, Two Hundred and Seventeen Acres of Land Lying on the North 
side of the Indian River In the County aforesaid. Whereon George Young formerly Lived 
and Executed at the Suit of Cornelius Wiltbank and Jane his wife Administrators of Isaac 
Boude Dec'd To Have and to Hold the Same unto him the said William Burton According 
to the Contents of a Deed bearing date the Seventh day of 7 ber 1705. 

To these may be added : 

Philadelphia the 12^^ of the 3^'^ Mo, 1685. 
We the president & the provincial Counsell accompanied with the representatives 
of the freemen in Assembly & divers magistrates officers & other persons of note do in 
duty & in concurrance with our neighbouring provinces solemnly pubhsh & declare that 
James Duke of York & Albany by the decease of our late soveraigne Charles the 2^ is 
now become our lawfull liege lord & king James the 2<i of England Scotland France & 
Ireland & amongst other of his dominions in America of this Province of Pennsdvama 
& its Territorys king, to whom we acknowledge faithfull & constant obedience hartily wish- 
ing him a happy raigne in health peace & prosperity 

And so God Save the King 

Tho Lloyd President 

Tho Holme Peter Aldricks Jon Simpcock 

Christo Taylor Wm Darvall Jon Cann 

Phineas Pemberton Luke Watson Willm Wood 

WiLLM Frampton Jon Roades Tho Janney 

Wm Southbe W. Greene Jon Barnes 

Ric^ Ingelo 

Clark Counsell 

(An Historical Account of the Old State House of Pennsylvania. By Frank M. 
Etting, 1891. Page 28.) 



236 THE ANCESTRY OF 



The will of " Luke Watson Senr. Esqr. of Lewis Town in the County of 
Sussex in the Territories of the province of Pennsylvania, being sick and weak 
of Body," was dated September 6, 1705, proved November 6, 1705. It devises 
to sons, Luke, John, Samuel and Isaac Watson, and to daughter Elizabeth, 
wife of Anthony Morris, senior, of Philadelphia, each five shillings. Recites 
agreement with Jonathan Graves, senior, late of Sussex County, deceased, to 
grant to Graves title to one hundred acres of land, part of a tract of five hun- 
dred acres in said county, called by the name of Wattson's Choice, for which 
payment had been made, and confirms the said one hundred acres which ad- 
joined the plantation of Jonathan Winne, to heirs of said Graves. The remain- 
ing part of above-mentioned five hundred acres and residue of estate to wife 
Sarah and " daughter Mary that I had by my wife Margery, Daughter of Capt. 
Henry Smith." Wife appointed executor, and son-in-law Richard Paynter and 
Justice Phillips Russell, both of Lewis town, to be overseers. Witnessed by 
Dorothy Givans, Anna Corbett, Philip Russell, Sarah Russell and Roger Cor- 
bett. (Sussex County Wills, Liber i, folios 58-60.) 

Children of Luke and Sarah Watson : 

1. LUKE WATSON, died 1708; married Mary . 

2. John Watson. 

3. SamuelWatson.s 

4. Sarah Watson, baptized May 16, 1677. 

5. Elizabeth Watson, baptized May 16, 1677. 

6. Isaac Watson, baptized May 16, 1677. 

Child of Luke and Margery Watson : 

7. Mary Watson, born at Prime Hook, Twelfth month 28, 1685. 



IX. 

Luke Watson, Jr., son of Luke and Sarah, died in Sussex County, on 
Delaware, before April 26, 1708, at which time his will was proved. The 
maiden name of Mary, wife of Luke Watson, has not been discovered. She 
married, secondly, Berkly Codd.^ 

Luke Watson, Jr., is mentioned in the record of a court held for Whore- 
kill, 9 September, 1679, when his father requested to take up one thousand 



^Appointed Justice of Peace for Sussex County, December 14, 1708. (" Pennsylvania Archives," 
2d series, vol. ix. (1880), p. 665.) 

9 " At a meeting of the Commissioners the 7th of the nth mo., 1712/13. William Fisher, of the County 
of Sussex, arriving from thence this morning, brings an acco't, as well Verbally as by Letters from Thomas 
Fisher, Collector of the Proprietor's quitt rents in the said County ; that the Said Collector having last week 
distrained on a Parcell of Wheat belonging to Berkly Codd, who married the Widow of Luke Watson, 
Junior, deceased, for the Quittrents due from the Plantation, the Said Codd had Replevined in and Sent it up 
to Philadelphia for Sale, Boasting that now he would try the Proprietor's Title, &c. 

" J. Logan also informed that he had Early in the morning been with the Lawyers to take advice 
whether the Said Wheat could be Seized here (advice having been brought to him of it before day) and had 
retained J. Moore in the cause by giving him a Guinea for a ffee, to prevent Codd's doing it by his fr'd here, 
to whom the Wheat is Sent, but that he found the Said Wheat Could not regularly be touched again in the 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 237 

acres of land for himself and two hundred and fifty for each of his four sons. 
Luke Watson, Sr., also granted to his son Luke two hundred acres at Prime 
Hook, and a share of four hundred acres of marsh land for which he made deed 
of gift to his sons on March 2, 1691/2. 

Luke Watson, Jun', was elected to the Assembly in 1689, 1692, 1698, 1700 
and 1701. (Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. ix., pp. 668, 669.) In Septem- 
ber, 1 701, he appears as one of the Justices holding court, and at the same time 
acknowledged a deed to William Clark for one thousand acres of land near the 
Three Runs in Kent County. He was recommissioned a Justice, August 16, 
1702. (Pennsylvania Archives, 2d series, vol. ix., p. 665.) Luke Watson, Jun^ 
John Hill and Thomas Fenwick were commissioned Deputy Registers of Wills 
for the County of Sussex, 9 August, 1705.^° 

The Sussex County records show the following: 

At a Court held for the Town and County of Deal by the Kings authority the 13 day 
of the month called December Anno Dom. 1681. Comm. Present Luke Watson John Kip- 
shaven & William Clark 

The Court granted unto Luke Wattson Junr upon a petition put into this Court for 
the purpose the Three Hundred Acres of Land that was James Leyes, he paying for the 
patton, he the said James Leyes never seating or Improving any part of the said Land 
absenting himself Out of the Countrey if Clear from the Lawful claim of any other. 
(Liber A, folio 5.) 

Howard Knight by his will dated 2 January 1693 (Sussex County Wills, Liber A, 
folio 19). makes Luke Watson Jr., his sole legatee and Executor in the following words: 
" I give and bequeath unto Luke Watson Jun'r of this County his heirs and assigns for- 
ever all my land and plantation lying and being in the Great Kill in and also all 

my Cattle which are of my mark, or otherwise due unto me by any person or persons, and 
also my Horse and mare if they bee living. 

At a Court held at Lewes for the County of Sussex the second & third days of Sep- 
tember 1701, Before Wm. Clark. Luke Watson, Jr.. Thomas Fisher, Thomas Fenwick, 
James Walker & Phillip Russell. Justices of the Court. 

Luke Watson Junr. appeared in Open Court and acknowledged to be his act and 
deed, to William Clark a Certain deed of Sale, or Conveyance for One Thousand Acres of 
Land near the Three Runs in Kent County. (Liber A, folio 88.) 

Proprietor's behalf, Security having been Given at Lewis to answer for it at the Court, as by Replevin 
(a copy of which is Sent up) appears. 

'■•The Board approved of the Said J. L.'s Early care of giving the s'd Fee and thinking it advisable and 
necessary that this affair be Carefully managed and the best Defence that Possible Can be made and in order 
thereunto 'tis concluded that an E.xpress be immediately Sent to Andrew Hamilton, a Lawyer in Cecil County. 
Maryland, who Generally attends our Courts below, to Engage him in the Cause." (Minutes of the Board 
of Property, Minute Book H. " Pennsylvania Archives," ad series, vol. xix., p. 542.) 

"The Commission of Luke Watson. Jr., and others, to be Deputy Registers for the Probate of 
Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in the County of Sussex reads: 

"John Evans Esq By and with Her Majesties Royall Approbation, Lieutenant Governor of ye 
province of Pensilvania and Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware. 

" To John Hill, Luke Watson Junr & Thomas ffenwick Esqrs Greeting— 

"Reposing Special Trust and Confidence in yre Loyalty Justice and Integrity I have Deputed & 
Appointed And By These presents Do Depute and Appoint you ye sd John Hill Luke Watson and Thomas 
ffenwick To be Deputy Registers, for the probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration, m the 
sd County of Sussex, Giving and Granting unto you, ye said John Hill, Luke Watson and Thomas ffenwick, 



238 THE ANCESTRY OF 

At a Court of Common Pleas held at Lewes for the County of Sussex the Third day 
of May 1704. 

Nehemiah Field appeared in Open Court, and by virtue of a power to him given by 
William Dyre Sr., a certain Deed of Remise and Release him, the said Dyre to Luke 
Watson Jun'r, as Executor of Knight Howard. Son and Heir of Thomas Howard, both 
deceased, In and to a Certain parcell of Land, on the north side of the Broad Creek, In 
the County of Sussex, Containing six hundred acres, the said Nehemiah Field did acknowl- 
edge Declare and Deliver, unto Luke Wattson Jun'r the said Deed In Open Court, by 
Virtue of the Authority aforesaid, which deed under the hand and seal of the said William 
Dyre bears date the Twentieth Day of September 1703. (Liber A, folio 205.) 

The will of Luke Watson, of Sussex County, yeoman, he being in good 
health, was dated October 10, 1707, proved April 16, 1708. He devised to his 
granddaughter Mary Lillingston all his land and meadow on Prime Hook, in the 
county aforesaid. If she should die without issue the said estate to the tes- 
tator's brother Samuel's son Luke. To wife all personal estate, also the use 
of all real estate if she did not remarry, " but if she alters her condition," then 
granddaughter to have possession of same when of age of eighteen years; if 
granddaughter dies under age, wife to have real estate for life, then to testa- 
tor's cousin Luke. 

To brother Isaac, " ye Hundred Acres of Marsh that Lies Between John 
Line & Prime Hook Creeks Mouth he or they paying the Rent that is Due to 
ye Proprietor." Wife executrix and brother Samuel trustee to assist her ; he 
to take the personal estate into his hands if the wife should die before the 
granddaughter was eighteen years of age. Witnessed by Hannah Croswell, 
Richard Davis and Samuel Watson. (Sussex County Wills, Liber 16, folio 52.) 

Child of Luke and Mary Watson : 

I. ELIZABETH WATSON, died December, 1705; married George Lillingston. 

The will of Mary Codd, of the County of Sussex, on Delaware, widow, 
she being in good health, dated September 26, 1733, proved September 2, 1734, 
devised to great-grandson Thomas Till lands and marsh in Prime Hook Neck, 
in the County of Sussex, when he was of age. Also five hundred pounds to be 
raised out of her personal estate, when he came of age ; also her slaves, Nancy, 
Jenney, Philip, Toney, Daniel, Ishmael, Isaac, Harrey, Young Crageo, Annis 
Malley, Dina, Billy, Samuel and Jacob, with all their children and increase, 
besides Abbe, Mingo, London and Sussex (who were children of Abigail) ; also 
four yoke of oxen, ten cows, each with a calf at her foot, with the two breeding 



or any Two of vou, full power and authority to direct execute and performe the sd Office in all the Several 
parts and branches Thereof, According to the known Laws, Customs and Usages of ye said Office in the 
Government, and as shall be necessary for the better Discharge Thereof, Although not particularly herein 
expressed, until I shall give further Orders. 

" Therein Given under my hand and Seal the ninth day of August of ye said province at Philadelphia 
the Ninth day of August In ye fourth year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Anne &c Anno Domini 
1705 " John Evans." 

(Sussex County Records, Liber Q, folio i.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 239 

mares and one good saddle horse, one silver tankard, one silver porringer and 
six silver spoons. 

To granddaughter Mary Till, land and plantation on Cedar Creek in the 
county aforesaid, called Hedges, containing three hundred and forty-nine acres, 
when she was aged eighteen years ; also to said Mary, two negro slaves, Phebe 
and Rose, with their children and increase ; six cows, each with a calf at her 
foot. 

To Luke Watson, the son of her first husband's brother, twenty pounds. 
To granddaughter Mary, wife of William Till, Esquire, the residue of estate. 
Executor to sell land lying on Mespilion Creek, in Kent County, if he shall 
think fit. Wearing apparel which granddaughter shall not wear herself to be 
divided between the two negro women, Hagar and Nancy. Grandson-in-law, 
William Till, Esquire, appointed executor. Witnessed by Thomas Sober, 
Samuel Mickle, Attwood Shuk and William Parsons. (Philadelphia Wills, 
Liber E, folio 304.) 



VIII. Elizabeth Watson, married George Lillingston. 
VII. Mary Lillingston. married William Till. 
VI. Mary Till, married Andrew Hamilton. 
V. Andrew Hamilton, married Abigail Franks. 
IV. Ann Hamilton, married James Lyle. 
III. Ellen Lyle, married Hartman Kuhn. 
II. Elizabeth Kuhn, married George Calvert Morris. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



240 THE ANCESTRY OF 



WILLING. 
Generation VI. 

Charles Willing, son of Thomas^ and Anne ; born at Bristol, England, 
May i8, 1710; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 30, 1754; married 



1 Mr. Edward S. Willing wrote November 8, 1904 : "I have recently found the book in which I had 
copied the Willing genealogy anterior to Joseph Willing as transcribed by Mr. Hildeburn. As it is quite 
circumstantial, and as he was a competent person I am quite inclined to regard it as authentic. His time in 
England was brief so that I think that further researches would not only verify it, but add to our present 
information. My grandfather, Thomas Willing, does not seem to have been informed of the ancestry of 
either family [Willing or Lowle] , earlier than Joseph Willing and his wife, Ava Lowle. He writes : 

" ' Joseph's daughter, Mary married Stephen Burcomb of Monmouth she had a daughter Anne, who 
has said in my hearing when in Bristol, to my grandfather Thomas Willing, that her grandfather Joseph 
Willing was a Welshman and that the family name was now spelt differently from what it used formerly to be.' 

" He derived his information from a Family Bible printed in 1614, sent to him by Mary Sims Willing, 
daughter of his great uncle Richard, and the only surviving child of Richard (Joseph's second son), and who 
at that time resided at Temple-Cloud in Somersetshire. 

" I have photos from the portraits of Charles & Anne S. Willing and of General Harrison, also of 
Edward & Joseph Shippen from copies of originals belonging to the late Edward Shippen (Walnut & 12th) 
and of Anne Harrison Willing, copied from an original belonging to Mrs. J. T. Spencer. Probably better 
photos could be made. I have made the genealogies which I send you." 

ENGLISH WILLING DESCENT. 

Generation XI. 
Michael Willinc;, brother of Sir John Willing, an active Royalist living in 1542, they being grandsons of 
Simon Willing, who was living in Modbury, Devonshire, in 1546. 

Children : 
i. William Willing of Modbury, whose will proved April 25, 1635, mentions children: William, 

Richard, Agnes, Philippa, Eleanor, Thomasine and Joane. 
ii. Michael Willing. 

iii. JOHN WILLING. 

X. 

John Willing, son of Michael Willing. 

Children : 

1. JOSEPH WILLING of Hupperton, County of Somerset ; baptized December 17, 1620 ; died 

1678 ; married Mary . 

ii, John Willing. 

iii. William Willing ; will proved July 4, 1671, mentions children: Thomas, John, Charles and 
loseph. 

IX. 
Joseph Willing, son of John Willing, of Hupperton, County Somerset Parish of Portbury ; baptized at 
Easton in Gordan, December 17, 1620 ; will proved 1678 ; married Mary . 

Children : 
i. JOSEPH WILLING, buried Februarys, 1693; married (i) July i, 1672, Elizabeth Plaver 

(2) May 24, 1676, Ava Lowle. 
ii. John Willing, 
iii. Mary Willing. 
iv. Ann Willing. 
V. Thomas Willing, baptized at Bristol, September 10, 1654. 

VIII. 
JO.SEPH Willing, son of Joseph and Mary Willing, buried February 2, 1693; will proved April 3, 1693; 
married (1) July i, 1672, Elizabeth Plaver, who died October 4, 1675 : (2) May 24, 1676, Ava Lowle, who 
died December 31, 1707 and was buried January 9, 1706/7, daughter of Ihomas Lowle. 

Children of Joseph Willing and Elizabeth Plaver : 
i. George Willing, born September 12, 1673. 
ii. Joseph Willing, born September 22, 1675. 



CHARLES WILLI X(: 

son of Tliomas and Anne (Harrison) Willing, 
b. Bristol, Eng., May 18, 1710; 
d. Pliiladelphia, Pa., Nov. 30, 1754. 



Thomas, 

I). Dec. 19, 1731; 
d. .Jan. 19, 1821; 
ni. .(\me 19, 1763, 

Ann McCall, 

(dan. of Samuel and Ann), 

h. Mar. 30. 1745; 

d. Fil). 5, 1781. 



I 

Ann, 
I). .Tulv 16, 1733; 
d. .Jan. 2, 1812; 
m. Feb. 8, 1762, 
Tench Francis 
(issue). 



I 

D(jrotliv, 

b. .Ju'lv 16, 1735; 
d. 1782; 

m. Sir Walter Stirling 
(issue). 



I 

Cliarles, 

b. May 30, 1738; 
d. Mar. 22, 1788; 
ni. May 24, 1760, 

Elizabeth H. Carrington 

(dau. of Paul), 

d. Oct. 12, 1795. 



I 

Elizabeth Gibbes, 
b. Sept. 30, 1764; 
d. Feb. 12, 1820; 
m. .John Forster .\lleynD 
(issue). 



I 

.Marv, 
b. Sept. 24, 17 1 
d. Mar. 28, 181 1 
m. Jan. 29, 17f 
Col. Wm. fd 
(issue). I 



Ann, I 

b. Aug. 28, 176' I 
d. Jan. 11. 1855' 
m. Mar. 9, 1786. 
Luke Morris 
(See Morris rei 1 



I 

Ann, 
b. Aug. 1, 1764; 
m. William Bingham. 



I 

Cliarles, 
b. Apr. 7, 1766; 
m. (1) Rosalind Evans; 
(2) Ann Hemphill. 



I I 

Thomas Mayne, Elizalieth, 

b. Apr. 15, 1767; b. Mar. 27. 1768; 
d. Oct. 13, 1822; m. Maj. Wm. Jackson, 
m. Jane Ni.xon. 



I I 

Marv, Dorc 

b.' Sept. 15, 1770; b. 

m. Henrv Clvmer. m. I 



;0-l, ANN SHIPPEN. 

dau. of Joseph and Abigail (Grosse) Shippen. 
b. Aug. 5, 1710; 
d. June 23, 1791. 



1742/3; 
1830; 
1769; 
Powel 



le). 



I 

Richaid, 
b. Jan. 2, 1744; 
d. Jan. 30, 1798; 
m. Jan. 30, 1766, 

Margaret Kortright 
(dau. of Cornelius) 
(no issue). 



I I 

Abigail, Josepli, 

b. Julv 15, 1747; b. Oct. 13, 1749; 

d. Aug. 10, 1791; d. July 4, 1750. 
unm. 



I 

James, 

b. Feb. 9, 1750/1; 
d. Oct. 13, 1801; 
unm. 



Margaret, 

b. Jan. 15, 1753; 

d. Sept. 21, 1816; 

m. Nov. 16, 1775, 
Robert Hare 
(son of Richard 
and Martha); 
issue, of whom 
John Powel Hare 
changed name 
liy act of As- 
sembly to John 
Hare Powel. 



PYancis. 



I 

George, 
b. Apr. 14, 1774; 
m. (1) Maria Benezet; 

(2) Rebecca H. Blaekwell. 



I I 

Richard, Abigail, 

b. Dec. 25, 1775; b. May 16, 1777; 

m. Eliza Moore. m. Richard Peters. 



I I 

A\illiam Shippen, Uenrv, 

b. Feb. 6, 1779; b. Dec. 15, 1780; 

m. Maria W. Peters. d. June 20, 17S1. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 241 

January 21, 1730, Ann Shippen, born August 5, 1710; died June 23, 1791 ; 
daughter of Joseph Shippen and Abigail Grosse. Charles Willing came to 



Children of Joseph Willing and Ava Lowle : 
iii. Martha Willing, born 1676/7. 
iv. Mary Willing, bom 1678; married October 11, 1705, Stephen Burcomb of Monmouth, and 

had a daughter Anne. 
V. THOMAS WILLING, born January 16, 1679; died 1760; married July 16, 1704, Anne 

Harrison, 
vi. Richard Willing, born May 28, 1681 ; died at Temple Cloud, County Somerset, England. 
September, 1736; married February 21, 1709/10, Mary Sims. He visited Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, in 1716 and in 1721. His second daughter was Mary Sims of West Indies, 
vii. James Willing, born 1683 ; died 1727. 

viii. Samuel Willing, born 1688 ; buried February 10, 1692/3. 
There were other children whose names are not known. 

VII. 
Thomas Willing, of Bristol, England, son of Joseph Willing and Ava Lowle, born January 16, 1679 ; 
died 1760; married July 16, 1704, Anne Harrison, who died September 11, 1747, daughter of Charles 
Harrison. She was the granddaughter of Major General Thomas Harrison, and also granddaughter of Simon 
Mayne, both of whom are said to have been members of the court which condemned Charles I. 

Children : 
i. Dorothy Willing, 
ii. Mary Willing. 
iii. Blanche Willing, 
iv. Anne Willing. 
V. CHARLES WILLING, born May 18, 1710 ; died November 30, 1754 ; married January 21, 

1731, Ann Shippen. 
vi. Thomas Willing, died at Longford, Middlesex County, England, 1772, unmarried. Came to 

.■\merica 1742, returned to England in a few years. Was Director in the Bank of England. 

LOWLE. 

XIX. 

William Lowle of Yardley in Worcestershire, England, married Lyttleton. 

Children : 

i. JAMES LOWLE, married Barkerville. 

ii. Andrew Lowle. 
iii. Samuel Lowle. 

XVIII. 

James Lowle, son of William, married Barkerville. 

Children : 

i. RAFFE LOWLE, married Hasdrigg 

ii. George Lowle. 
iii. Edward Lowle. 
iv. Andrew Lowle. 

XVII. 

Raffe Lowle, son of James, married Hasdrigg. 

Children : 
i. WALTER LOWLE, married Joan Russell, 
ii. Thomas Lowle. 
iii. Anthony Lowle. 
iv. Sabity Lowle. 

XVI. 

Walter Lowle, son of Raffe, married Joan Russell. 

Child : 
i. RICHARD LOWLE, died at Yardley ; married Turner. 

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THE ANCESTRY OF 



Philadelphia when eighteen years of age and entered upon mercantile pur- 
suits. He was active in estabhshing the " Philadelphia Associators " in 1744:- 



XV. 

Richard Lowle, son of Walter, died at Yardley and is there buried "with his coat" ; married 

Turner. 

Children : 

i. THOMAS LOWLE, married Mayhouse. 

ii. Richard Lowle, killed at Birmingham. 

XIV. 

Thomas Lowle, son of Richard, married Mayhouse. 

Children : 
— Wake. 



i. JOHN LOWLE, married — 

ii. William Lowle. 
iii. Thomas Lowle. 
iv. Roger Lowle. 

xni. 

John Lowle, son of Thomas, died at Clevedon in Somersetshire ; married Wake. 

Children : 
i. John Lowle, married Apolys, daughter of Robert Liversage, and had: Richard Lowle, 
married the daughter of Percival, and had Percival Lowell, born 1591 ; was in New Eng- 
land 1639, (Lowells of Massachusetts) ; Edmond Lowle and John Lowle. 
ii. ROGER LOWLE, married Joane Gage. 

xn. 

Roger Lowle, son of John, married Joane Gage, daughter of John Gage of Walton. 

Children : 
i. JOHN LOWLE of Walton ; married Prudence Whyke. 
ii. William Lowle. 
iii. Andrew Lowle. 
iv. James Lowle. 

XI. 

John Lowle, of Walton, son of Roger, married Prudence Whyke, daughter and heiress of H. Whyke 
of Hereford, by Jane, daughter of Nicholas Whyke of Donnongton, Gloucestershire. 

Children : 
i. THOMAS LOWLE, married Margaret Dyer. 



n. 
iii. 



X. 



Thomas Lowle of Tockington, son of John, married Margaret Dyer, daughter and heiress of John 
Dyer of Tockington, Gloucester. 

Children : 
i. JOHN LOWLE, married Martha Smith. 
ii. William Lowle. 
iii. Raffe Lowle. 

iv. Francis Lowle, who was in the West Indies in 1639. 
V. Thomas Lowle, died without issue, 
vi. Mary Lowle, married John Hubbell of London. 

IX. 
John Lowle, son of Thomas, was of Woodhouse, Gloucestershire, in 1639 ; married Martha Smith 
daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Smith of near Taunton. 

Children : 

i. THOMAS LOWLE. 

ii. Raffe Lowle. 

iii. John Lowle. 

iv. Martha Lowle. 

V. Mary Lowle. 

VIII. 

Thomas Lowle, son of John Lowle and Martha Smith. 

Child : 

AVA LOWLE, married May 26, 1676, Joseph Willing. 

'''Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. (89). 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 243 



was Captain in the Associated Regiment of Foot of Philadelphia, 1747;^ a sub- 
scriber to the first Dancing Assembly, and one of the founders and first Trus- 
tees of the University of Pennsylvania, 1749-1754.* He became a member of 
the Common Council of Philadelphia, 1743;^ was appointed Justice of the 
Peace, 1745, 1749 and 1752 ;« Associate Justice of the City Court, 1747; ^ 
Mayor of the City, 1748, and again in 1754.** He died of ship-fever, contracted 
while in the discharge of his official duties. 

Charles Willing was a member of the vestry of Christ Church, 1735-37, 
1744, 1749 and 1750.^ 

The following obituary notice appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette of De- 
cember 5, 1754: 



CHARLES WILLING. 

Last Saturday, after a short illness,, departed this life, in the 45th year of his age, 
Charles Willing, Esquire; Mayor of this City. As it may be truly said that this com- 
munity had not a more useful member, his death is justly lamented as a public loss to 
his country, as well as an almost irretrievable loss to his family and friends. 

In the character of a Magistrate he was patient, indefatigable, and actuated by a 
steady zeal for justice. As a Merchant it was thought that no person amongst us under- 
stood commerce in general, and the trading interests of this province in particular better 
than he. and his success in business was proportionably great. As a Friend he was faith- 
ful, candid and sincere. As a Husband and Parent few ever exceeded him in tenderness 
and affection. Being himself a sincere Christian, he was strictly attentive to the education 
of his children in every virtuous qualification, and in a particular manner he was re- 
markable in the discharge of that essential part of a parent's duty, so little considered — a 
regular attendance, together with his numerous family, on the public worship of God. 
And for this accordingly, they will now have reason to bless his memory, since the im- 
pressions, thereby received, will go further to teach them how to bear their present heavy 
affliction and recommend them to the favor of the world (degenerate as it is) than all the 
external advantages, — all the fortune, grace and good opinion he has left them pos- 
sessed of. 

ODE TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES WILLING, ESQ. 

Once more I seek the cypress shade, 
To weave a garland for the dead ; 

Alone, dejected, wan ! 
Shall WILLING quit this mortal strife, 
And not a verse show him in life 

And death — an honest man ? 



s " Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. li., p. 502. 
* Keith's " Provincial Councillors," p. (89). 

5 " Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. ix,, p. 732. 

6 Ibid., p. 708 ; Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 33. 
' Martin's " Bench and Bar," p. 61. 

8 " Pennsylvania Archives," 2d series, vol. i.\., p. 729. 

^Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. xix., p. 526 ; Keith's " Provincial Councillors, ' p. (89). 



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244 THE ANCESTRY OF 



Forbid it, graceful muse ; 

The world itself with patriot views 

With transient tears commend. 
But nobler far, your task, ye Nine I 
'Tis yours th' immortal wreath to twine, 

And consecrate each friend. 

Be present, then ; this boon bestow ! 
A friend is lost ! Now bind his brow, 

And bid each age proclaim 
How first among th' illustrious band 
That fixed yon mansion in this land, 

Stands WILLING' S honored name.'" 

Bid helpless innocence reheved, 
The widow's hopeless state retrieved, 

And orphans' rights restored ; 
Tell how he graced the judgment seat," 
Still incorrupt and firmly great ; 

Alike to slave or lord. 

How nicely he, the various plan 

Of bounteous commerce, knew to scan,^^ 

And raise his country's weal ; 
Her trade by him enlarged, her good 
Thro' every secret maze pursu'd, 

But distant times will telL 

What more he did to bless the State, 
And all the deeds of life complete ; 

Should any seek to know ! 
Bid them behold his num'rous race, 
And read in each illumin'd face 

What language cannot show ! 

Bid them look up to Celia's eyes. 
Where all the soul of softness lies, 

And reason beams thro' truth ! 
Or should this risk be deemed too bold. 
Bid them each manly grace behold 

Rip'ning in Damon's youth, 

Damon, attend ! Proceed to shine. 
To fill a father's place be thine. 

And soothe a mother's care. 
This done, still mindful of his hearse, 
Whose doom was sudden, write the verse. 

And drop a filial tear. 

EPITAPH. 

If to be all the wise and good commend. 
The tender husband, father, and the friend ; 
At home beloved and blest, esteemed abroad ; 
Studious to serve mankind, and please his God ; 
If these, from death, one useful life could save, 
Thou had' St not read that WILLING fills the grave. 



1" .'\s a Trustee of the Academy. 
1' As a Magistrate. 
1^ As a Merchant. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 245 



MORAL. 

But ah ! what boots it that, with zealous toil, 
We court renown or bask in fortune's smile ? 
In midst of all our fond, enchanting dreams. 
Even whilst our souls are bent on patriot schemes, 
Death lurks behind to cut life's thin-spun thread ; 
Then, swift as noon-tide shadows, all is tied ! 
One only thought remains to charge the mind — 
If human aims are just — "That Heaven is kind ! " 

The will of Charles Willing, of Philadelphia, merchant, " bound on a voy- 
age to England," ^^ dated July 28, 1750, proved December 10, 1754, bequeathed 
to his father, Thomas Willing, of Bristol, merchant, fifty pounds yearly during 
his life. He devised the house on Third Street, where he then lived, to his old- 
est son Thomas, with the garden and stable, the whole extending from Third 
Street westward two hundred and fifty-eight feet. To his son Charles, the lot 
lately bought, once the estate of Joshua Cart, being on Front Street, with the 
w^arehouse and buildings he had erected thereon, his son Thomas to have the 
use of the said property, however, until Charles was of age, paying to said 
Charles thirty-five pounds per annum during that term. To his son Richard, 
his house and lot on Second Street, where Captain Charles Stedman then lived. 

To daughter Ann the northernmost half of a lot fronting on Fourth Street 
and extending eastward to his stable on the alley about one hundred and thirty- 
five feet, being the same on which he had a garden, back of his dwelling house 
on Third Street. To his daughter Dorothy the southernmost half of last-men- 
tioned lot. To son Richard, all right to a grant of five hundred acres of land 
in Pennsylvania, lately bought from the heirs of Christopher Forward. To 
children, Thomas, Charles, Ann and Dorothy, a piece of ground on Third Street 
late the estate of Thomas Story, deceased, containing eighty-two feet six 
inches on Third Street and extending westward one hundred and ninety-eight 
feet, his son Thomas to have the first lot bounded to the south by piece of 
ground of Margaret Jekyl's. 

To children, Mary, Elizabeth, Richard and Abigail, a lot on Fourth Street, 
late the estate of Thomas Story, containing in breadth on said street eighty- 
two feet six inches, and extending eastward one hundred and ninety-eight feet, 
bounded north by lot of Margaret Jekyl, south by Story Street, daughter Mary 
to have the lot next to Story Street. 

To wife his negro wench Cloe. To daughter Dolly his negro girl Venus. 
To son Thomas his negro man John. To son Charles his negro man Litch- 



13 The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 28, 1750 : 

CHARLES WILLING 

Intending to go for England, in the ship Macclesfield, Capt. Stupart ; AH persons indebted to him, are 
desired to pay the same. To be sold by said Willing, best muscovedo sugar, Barbados rum, old Madeira 
wine, bohea and best single tea, and a large assortment of European and India goods, suitable for the season, 
very cheap for ready money, or 6 months credit. 

For London directly. 

The Ship Macclesfield, Alexander Stupart, Commander, For freight or passage, 
apply to James Burd, or the said commander, on board at Hamiltons wharff. N. B. There is good 
accommodations for passengers. 



246 THEANCESTRYOF 

field. His household furniture and plate he devised as follows : to son Thomas 
the furniture in the back parlor, one dozen silver knives and forks and a case 
of twelve spoons, four silver candlesticks, two silver salts and spoons, the old- 
fashioned sugar dish and spoon bought of Joseph Shippen, deceased, father of 
the testator's wife, the picture of the testator's mother, drawn by Bisson. To 
his daughter Ann his own and her mother's picture, drawn by Feake, besides 
the plate marked in her name. To his daughter Dorothy his own and her 
mother's picture, drawn by Flesseltiees. The rest of household furniture to 
his wife and his daughters Ann and Dorothy. 

To son Thomas his chestnut-colored horse, bridle and saddle, his gold 
watch, sword, pistols, gold-headed cane and all his books. To son Charles his 
silver watch, when aged sixteen. To wife his black horse and chaise. 

All goods, wines, merchandise and shipping to be disposed of by his 
executors. 

To son Thomas, two thousand pounds sterling money of Great Britain, 
eight hundred pounds in six months and the residue when he was of age. The 
following sums in Pennsylvania currency to be paid to his children when aged 
twenty-one years ; in the meantime the interest for their education and main- 
tenance, to wit, to Charles, three thousand pounds ; to Richard, one thousand 
five hundred pounds ; to Ann and Dorothy, each one thousand five hundred 
pounds ; to Mary, Elizabeth and Abigail, each one thousand two hundred 
pounds. 

The bills charged to his son Thomas on books not to be considered a part 
of legacy left to him by will, the same given to him as an instance of the regard 
the testator bears him, and to encourage him in business. " And it is my mind 
and will that all my children live with and under their mother's care, of whose 
affection and love I have the strongest proof, and I hereby enjoin them to be 
obedient in all things ; and I direct that she shall be allowed out of every one's 
share of my estate a suitable allowance for their maintenance and education. 

To his son Thomas, tract of thirty acres of land lately bought of James 
Humphries, on the west side of the Schuylkill. To wife the interest of two 
thousand and six hundred pounds, money of Pennsylvania, during her life ; after 
her decease the principal to become part of his residuary estate. His son 
Thomas to allow his mother to live in and occupy the house where the testator 
then dwelt, for the space of seven years after his decease, in consideration 
whereof he is to be allowed fifty pounds yearly. 

To his brother, Thomas Willing, " now or late of London, merchant," his 
sisters, Dorothy H. and Ann Willing, the sum of three English guineas each as a 
token of his love for them. The residue of his estate to his children, Thomas, 
Charles, Richard, Ann, Dorothy, Mary, Elizabeth and Abigail. Son Thomas to 
be allowed five per cent, out of the residue of the estate if he attend to the dis- 
posal of all the effects, etc. His wife and son Thomas appointed executors. 
Witnessed by D. Martin, Thomas Hopkinson and John Price. (Philadelphia 
Wills, Liber K, folio 230.) 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 247 



Children of Charles Willing and Ann Shippen:"' 

1. Thomas Willing,i* born December 19, 1731; died January 19, 1821; married June 

19, 1763, Ann McCall. 

2. Ann Willing, born July 16, 1733; died January 2, 1812; married February 8, 1762, 

Tench Francis. i^ 

3. Dorothy Willing, born July 16, 1735; died in Scotland, 1782; married Captain, 

(afterward Sir) Walter Stirling, of Taskine. 

4. CHARLES WILLING, born May 30, 1738; died March 22, 1788; married May 

24, 1760, Elizabeth Hannah Carrington. 

5. Mary Willing, born September 24. 1740, died March 28, 1814; married January 

29, 1761, Colonel William Byrd. 



"Thomas Willing associated himself in business with Robert Morris, who had been in the counting- 
house of the elder Charles Willing, and as Mr. Griswold says, " to the great credit and well known patriotism 
of the house of Willing and Morris, the country owed its extrication from those trying pecuniary embarrass- 
ments so familiar to readers of our Revolutionary history." He was a member of Common Council, 1755 ; 
Alderman, 1759 ; Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Courts, 1761, 1764 and 1765 ; Mayor, 1763 ; Member 
of the Assembly, 1764 and 1765 ; Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1761-1767. He was a 
signer of the non-importation resolutions, 1764, and President of the Provincial Congress which met in 
Philadelphia, July 15, 1774; and a member of the Congress of 1775 and that of 1776. In 1781, when 
Congress chartered the Bank of North America, with a view of enabling the United States to carry on the 
War of Independence, it was made a part of the enactment, by that body, that Thomas Willing should be 
its President. He was taken from the Bank of North America to be placed in the higher office of 
President of the Bank of the United States. Thomas Willing was a Trustee of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania and its Treasurer, 1766-1768 ; a vestryman of Christ Church, 1762, 1763, 1766 and 1772, and one of the 
original Trustees of the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. 

Thomas Willing, writing to General Frederick Haldimand, Philadelphia, September 20, 1774, says : 
" My brother James intends soon for the Mississippi, but will I dare say do himself the pleasure to see 
you before his departure. I wish the situation of Public affairs had permitted you to have visited us here this 
time. If you are to be delayed untill our distractions are settled, I fear from present appearances, it will be 
much too long ; repeated injuries on the one side, and retorted Insults on the other, will probably keep alive 
the Coal which must consume the vitals of both countrys. I am no great Politician but as an American I 
both See and feel the chains which are prepared for me. I honor & glory in the reputation of the mother 
country and I love my own whose liberties and interest are most cruelly and unjustly attack'd. Some 
humiliation on their part and Some concessions on Ours seems to me the only proper and probable way, of 
settling the unhappy dispute ; they are contending for shadows, we for substantials, which I hope to God will 
never be risted from us, by the Iron hand of Power ; You'l excuse a friend, who having all at stake speaks in 
the sincerity of his heart and wishes well to both countries." — Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. vi., p. 366.) 

The Rev. Richard Peters wrote to Rev. William Smith, May 28, 1763 : " Mr. Thomas Wilhng is to 
be married next week to Nancy McCall a sweet fine lady but low in Stature. She is deem'd to have an 
excellent Understanding and will do the Honours, as well as shine in the Oeconomy and management of a 
Family." — Pennsylvania Magazine, vol. x., p. 353.) 

"ANN WILLING. 

" On Monday, the sth inst., died, gready and deservedly regretted, Mrs. ANN WILLING, wife of 
Thomas Willing, Esq., and her remains were on Thursday interred in Christ-Church burying ground, with 
the tribute of many a tear to her memory. 

"With every virtue that can adorn the female character, she possessed the most amiable and endearing 
manners. It is not the brief memorial inscribed on the fugitive page that can do her justice ; a more durable 
monument of her virtue and her worth is erected in the hearts of her surviving friends, stamped in such 
strong characters that nothing but the passing hand of death can ever efface them." 

— Pennsylvania Gazette, February 14, 1781. 

"' The will of Ann Willing of Philadelphia, widow, "at present indisposed," dated August 20, 1780; 
proved June 25, 1791, named her daughter Abigail Willing executri.x and sole legatee. Witnessed by 
Andrew Hall, William Shippen and Ann Willing. (Philadelphia Wills, Liber W, folio 170.) 

15 For letters written by Colonel (later, General) Henry Bouquet to Ann Willing, see Pennsylvania 
Magazine, vol. iii. 



248 THE ANCESTRY OF 



6. Elizabeth Willing, born February lo, 1742/3; died January 17, 1830; married 

August 7, 1769, Samuel Powel. 

7. Richard Willing, born January 2, 1744; died January 30, 1798; married January 

30, 1766, Margaret Kortright. 

8. Abigail Willing, born July 15. 1747: died August 10, 1791; unmarried. 

9. Joseph Willing, born October 13, 1749; died July 4, 1750. 

10. James Willing, born February 9, 1750/1: died October 13, iSoi. 

11. Margaret Willing, born January 15, 1753; died September 21, 1816; married 

November 16, 1775, Robert Hare. 



The family Bible of Charles Willing, the Mayor, in the possession of the 
compiler of this volume, contains the following records : 

Memorandum That 

Charles Willing Son of Thomas & Ann Willing was born in the City of Bristol, on Thurs- 
day the 18"^'' May 1710 & was married (in Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsilvania) on 
Thursday Evening ab^ Seven a Clock being y*^ Twenty-first day of January 1730, to Ann 
Shippen (Daughter of Joseph & Abigail Shippen) who was born in said City of Philadel- 
phia & Province aforesaid, on Satturday the 5*^^ August 1710. 

Thomas Willing, Son of Charles & Ann Willing was born in the City of Philad^ on Sun- 
day Evening ab*^ II O'Clock the 19**^ December 1731 & Baptized by the Rev^ M^ Archibald 
Cummins on Monday the 13**^ March 1731 

Ann Willing Daughter of Cha'^ & Ann Willing was born in Philadelp^ on Monday the Six- 
teenth Day of July 1733 ab*^ 2 o'Clock, in the After noon & was Baptized on Saturday the 
ii*'' Aug* 1733 by Rev'i M"' Archibald Cummings. 

Dorothy Willing 2'^ Daughter of Charles & Ann Willing was born in Philadelphia on 
Wednesday y^ 16**^ July ab* one o'Clock in the morning & was Baptized on Saturday y^ g^^ 
Aug* 173s by the Rev'i M'' Archibald Cummings 

Charles Willing, 2'^ Son of Charles & Ann Willing was born att Philad^ on Tuesday May 
the 30*^ 1738, about three Quarters Past Eight in the Evening, & was Baptized by the 
Rev^ M"" Archibald Cummings, on Thursday the 6"^ July 1738. 

Mary Willing, 3^1 Daughter of Cha^ & Ann Willing was born in Philadelphia on Wednesday 
September 24'^'^ 1740 ab*^ half after Eleven o'Clock &: was Christen'd on day of July 1741. 

Elizabeth Willing 4th Daughter of Cha*^ & Ann Willing was born on Thursday Feb^ io*'> 
1742/3. ab* 7 o'clock in the morning. 

Richard Willing, s^ Son of Cha" & Ann Willing, was born January 2^ 1744 on Wednesday 
Evening ab* II o'Clock 

Abigail Willing Fifth Daughter of Cha** & Ann Willing was born on Wednesday July 15, 
1747, ab* II o'clock in the forenoon. 

Joseph Willing, Fourth Son of Charles & Ann Willing was born October 13*^^ 1749 ab' 5 
aClock in the morning & Dyed July 4*^"' 1750 ab' II aClock, was buryed in the Church Bury- 
ing Ground Philad*^ the N W. Side 

James Willing Fifth Son of Cha'' &. Ann Willing born February the Ninth 1750/1 ab* five 
O'clock in the morning & was Christened the same Morning by the Rev'^ Doc"^ Jenny 
& died October 13"^ 1801 at ab*^ 12 P M 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 249 

Margaret Willing, Sixth Daughter of Charles & Ann Willing was Born on Monday Janu- 
ary the ist^ii 1753 ab' 6 a'Clock in the Evening 

Charles Willing Sen"- Died of a Nervous Fevour after 6 day's Ilness the 30^^ of November 
being Saturday Evens ab* half past five O'Clock ye yr 1754 & was buried Dece"^ 2^ 1754 in 
ye Church burye Ground Phil^ the N W. Cor 

My Honoured & truly respectable Mother Ann Willing departed this life on thursday the 
23<i day of June 1791 Aged 80 years 10 Months & 7 Days, & was buried in Christ Church 
Ground under the Tomb of my honoured father on friday the 24*^^ of June 

Tho^ Willing 

Abby Willing my very affectionate & beloved Sister died the lo**' of Aug^t 1791 ab^ 3 
O'clock A M aged forty four years & fifteen days Tho^ Willing 

Ann Francis my Eldest Sister, died the 2'^ of January 1812 ab* 12 O'Clock at Noon in her 
75th Year 

Thomas Willing Son of Charles & Ann Willing was born in Philad* the 19''^ of Dece"" 1731 

: S : and was married in Philad^ on Thursday Evens June the 9*^ 1763 ab*^ half past Eight 
O'clock to Ann M^Call (Eldest daughter of Sam^ & Ann M^Call of the same City,) who 
was born the 30*^'^ of March 1745 & was married by the Rev*^ Rich'^ Peters at the house of 
\\rm Plumsted, Esq. 

Ann Willing first Child of Tho* & Ann Willing born August the first 1764 A M & baptized 
by y* Revd Jacob Duche the 5'^ October 1764 

Charles Willing Second Child of Tho^ & Ann Willing w-as born May y*^ 15 1765 about 6 
oClock in y^ Evns & said Charles died the 12*^ of July at tw^o OClock in y^ Morn'g & was 
buried in Christ Church ground 

Charles Willing third Child of Tho^ & Ann Willing was born April the 7^^ about Eight 
OClock in y^ Morning 1766 

Richard Willing third Son of Charles & Ann Willing was married to Margaret Kortright 
by the Rev'^ M"" Inglis on Thursday Evens January the 30. 1766 ab*^ Half past Seven 

Thomas Mayne Willing fourth Child of Tho^ & A. W. was born April 15^^, 11 of Clock A M 
in the Year 1767 & was Baptized by Jacob Duche the 30 April 1768 

Elizabeth Willing the Second Daughter & fifth Child of Thomas & Ann Willing was born 
March 27^^ 1768 at 45 Minutes after two O'Clock P M & was baptized by the Rev^ Jacob 
Duchee 

George Willing fourth son & sixth Child of Tho« & Ann Willing was Born April 4^^ about 

1 of Clock A.M. & was baptized July 23^ 1769 By the Rev'i Jacob Duchee & dyed August 
the ID*'' 1769 

Richard Willing Sixth Son of Tho* & Ann Willing born Dec"- 25*11 1775 ab* half past 11 
O'clock P.M. Christened by M' Duche May 22'^ 1776 (at the Lawn the place of his birth) 
Rich^ Willing and Rob' Hare God fathers. Marg* Willing 

William Shippen Willing Seventh Son of Thomas & Ann Willing born February 6^^ 1779 at 
ID Minutes past 3 O'Clock A.M. 



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250 THE ANCESTRY OF 

Abigail Willing fifth daughter of Tho^ & Ann Willing born i6th May 1777 at 3 O Clock 
A.M. & baptized lo*^ April 1781 by the Rev'i M^ White 

Henry Willing Eighth Son of Tho^ & Ann Willing born 15 Decern'' 1780 half past 4 O C. 
A M & said Henry Willing was baptized the 10"' April 1781 by the Rev'^ M"^ White and died 
the 20'^'' June 1781 

On the 5"^ of feb^' 1781 my beloved Wife Ann Willing departed this Life & was buried 
in Christ Church burial ground on the 8"^ of feb^ 1781 

Walter Sterling the Son of Walter Stirling & Dorothy the Daughter of Cha^ & Ann Willing 
was born the 24'^ of June 1755 ab* 10 O'Clock in the morn.g. 

Maria Horsmandon Byrd the Daughter of W"* Byrd & Mary the 3'^ Daughter of Charles 
& Ann Willing was born the 26*'^ of November 1761 ab* half past One in the Day — & they 
were married 29''' Jan''^ 1761 by M"" Rich'i Peters 

Ann Willing Eldest Daughter of Cha^ & Ann Willing was married in Phil* to Tench 
Francis Escf by Rev'^ Rich'i Peters on Monday Even^ Feby 8^^ 1762 ab* 7. O'Clock 

John Francis — Eldest Son of Ann & Tench Francis was born on Monday Even^ the 30**^ 
of May 1763 ab* half past 7 O'Clock 

Willing Francis Second Son of Tench & Ann Francis was born in Phil* Nov'' 20^^^ 1764 
& died Sepf i*^t day 1766 

Thomas Francis third Son of Tench & Ann Francis was born in Phil* July the 3^ 1766 ab* 
10 O'clock at Night & died Sepf 4<h 1766 

Elizabeth Gibbs Willing first Child of Charles & Eliz* Hannah Willing was born Septem- 
ber ye 30*^ 1764 about 7 OClock in y^ MornS & christen'd by Jacob Duche October 18*^ 
1764 

Ann Willing Second Daughter of Cha^ & EHz* Hannah Willing born 28*''^ Aug^*^ 1767 ab*^ 
Eight O'clock in the MornS & Christened by Jacob Duche October i^t 1767 

Thomas Willing Francis born Aug** 30^^ 1767 ab* 40 Minutes past 10 O'Clock A M. being 
the fourth Son of Tench & Ann Francis 

Sophia Francis born Nov'' 7^^, 1769 ab* 7 O'Clock P.M being the first daughter of Tench 
& Ann Francis 

Charles Francis born Nov'' 2^^^ 1771 ab* 9 O'Clock in the Evening he being the fifth Son 
of Tench & Ann Francis 

Ann Willing Second daughter of Charles & Eliz* H. Willing was married to Luke Morris, 
the Son of Anthony & Eliz" Morris, on the 0*'' day of March 1786 — by the Rev^ W" White, 
Rector of Christ Church in Philadelphia 

Abigail Morris first Child of Luke & Ann Morris was born in Phil* the 20^^' of March 1787. 
at 4 P.M. 

The above Ann Willing Morris, born August 28*'' 1767, died in Germantown January ii*ii 
1853 aged Eighty five years & five months and was buried January 13"' 1853 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 251 



Memd Respects the death of Sundry Persons of the family of Shippen entered by 
me Thomas Willing — Viz*^ 

Edward Shippen the first of the family in Pennsylv* died October the 2^ 1712 

Joseph Shippen his Son, & my Grandfather, died at Germantown the — of January 1740/1 

William Shippen half bro'' to my s^ G'' father died in Phil^ the — of — aged 21 y" & 6 
Months 

Edward Shippen my Uncle died at Lancaster in Pennsylv* the 25* of September 1781, aged 
abt 80 y''^ 

Ann Willing my Mother died June 23'* 1791 aged 80 y" 10 Mo^ 7 days 

Joseph Shippen my Uncle died July lo''^ 1793 aged 86 y" & 9 Mo** 

William Shippen my Uncle died at Germ.antown the 4**^ of Nov'' 1801 aged 89 years, born 
Oct. jst 1712 O. S. 

Thomas Willing, Eldest Son of Charles and Ann Willing died in Philad^ January ig'^'^ 
1821, and was buried in Christ Church bury, ground January 21^'- 1821. Aged 89 years and 
20 days, next the Tomb of his honored Father. 

Charles Willing Son of Cha^ & Ann Willing died at Coventry farm the 22'^ of March 178S 
& buried in Christ Church Ground 

Richard Willing Son of Cha^ & Ann Willing died the 30'^'^ of Jan'''' 1798 at his farm in 
Delaware C° & buried feby. i^* in Christ Church Ground on the N° side of his bro'' Charles 

James Willing Son of Cha^ & Ann Willing died in Phil'^ ab' 12 O'Clock at Night October 
13* 1801 in the 51^^ year of his age & was buried the 14"* Oct. in Christ Church ground 
North side his brother Richard 

Ann Francis, Eldest daughter of Cha^ & Ann Willing died in Phil'' Jan^ 2^ 1812 ab* 12 
O'clock at Noon in her yg^^ year 

Dorothy Stirling Second daughter of Cha^ & A Willing died in Scotland in 1782 in the 
48'^'* year of her Age she was buried in the Parish of Monk land. 

Abigail Willing fifth daughter of Cha^ & Ann Willing died Aug^t iQtb. 1791 in her 43^^ year. 

Mary Byrd, third daughter of Cha^ & Ann Willing died the 28^1^ of March 1814 at Westover 
in Virginia, late the residence of her deceased husband William Byrd 

Margaret Hare Sixth daughter of Charles & Ann Willing, died in Phil'' Sept. the 21^' 1816 
at half past 5 O C^ A M in her 64^^- y^ 



252 THE ANCESTRY OF 

V. 

Charles Willing, son of Charles and Ann, " was born in Philadelphia 
Tuesday, May the 30"', 1738 About three quarters past eight in the evening and 
was baptized by the Rev" Mr. Archibald Cummings on Thursday the 6*^*^ July 
1738 " (Family Bible). He died at " Coventry farm," Delaware County, Penn- 
sylvania, March 22, 1788;^*' married in Barbadoes, May 24, 1760, Elizabeth 
Hannah Carrington, born Barbadoes, March 12, 1739/40; died October 12, 
1795; daughter of Paul Carrington and Elizabeth Gibbs. 

Charles Willing was a merchant of Philadelphia in the days of the mercan- 
tile pre-eminence of that city. He lived for many years in Barbadoes, but re- 
turned to Pennsylvania. His portrait by Benjamin West is in possession of 
Mrs. Charles Willing Littell, of Baltimore. 

The following, dated Philadelphia, April ly, 1837, was written by Thomas 
W. Morris : 

Charles Willing late of Pa. dec'd died seized of one moiety of a certain tract cntg 
about one thousand acres in Brooke Co. Virginia. C. W. died leaving two daughters in 
whom title finally vested. The eldest Mrs Alleyne was born in Pennsya., but early in life 
removed to the Island of Barbados where she married a British subject, and lived the 
residue of her life a British subject — . Indeed having been born prior to the Revolution 
she always was a British subject. Her children were all born within the British domin- 
ions and are of course aliens to the U. S. who I understand cannot hold lands in Virginia. 
Mrs Morris the second daughter was born in Pennsya. and never quitted the U. States at 
any period of her life — and she as an American citizen probably on the death of her 
father C. W. acquired title: at all events on the death of her sister, took as next kin of 
heritable blood — the children of Mrs. Alleyne not being able as aliens to hold land in Va. 

The facts as connected with the case are as stated and I believe the law to be as set 
forth. 

Charles Willing son of Chas. and Ann Willing was engaged in business for some 
years in the Island of Barbados where he married Elizabeth H. Carrington of that place 
24 May 1760. He afterwards returned to Philadelphia and died at Coventry farm Del. 
County Mar. 21, 1788. He left 2 children Elizabeth G. born 30th Sept. 1764, married to 
John F. Alleyne of Barbados (They afterwards moved to England) and Ann born 28th 
Aug. 1767 married to Luke Morris of Phila. 

Charles Willing was my Maternal Grandfather. He died in Delaware County State 
of Pennsylvania some time prior to the year 1790 and several 3'ears before my birth. His 
widow returned soon after his death to the Island of Barbados where she died some time 
about the year 1796 but as I speak from hearsay alone cannot specify the time with any 
degree of certainty but I can distinctly recollect events so far back as the year 1800 and 
have no recollection whatever of the arrival of the intelligence of her death. 

Charles Willing as I have been told resided in the Island of Barbados before the 
Revolution where he married. He had two children both of whom were born in Philada. 



16 " On Saturday, the 22d inst., departed this life, at Coventry, in Chester County, after a lingering and 
painful illness, which he bore with manly fortitude, CH.'\RLES WILLING, Esquire. 

" Of this gentleman it may truly be said, that his deportment, in the various relative duties of life, was 
amiable. The urbanity of his manners and integrity of his mind deservedly endeared him to his friends. 

" His remains, attended by a respectable concourse of his fellow citizens, were, on Saturday last, 
deposited in Christ-Church burying ground in this city." — Pennsylvania Gazette, March 26, 1788. 



ROSALIE MORRIS JOHNSON 253 



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before the Revolution— but be continued to reside with his family (his younger daughter 
excepted) in the Island of Barbadoes for many years afterwards. His eldest daughter 
was sent to this country for her education. She afterwards returned to Barbados where 
she married John Foster AUeyne, born as I have heard in the then Province of Massachu- 
setts. Mr. & Mrs. Alleyne continued to reside in the Island with occasional visits to 
England. I never heard that either returned to this country subsequent to their marriage. 
I believe all their children were born within the British Dominions and that all now living 
are residents therein. Mr. & Mrs. Alleyne are both dead as I have heard from my mother 
to whom the intelligence was communicated. Mrs. A. died first & as I believe about 
twenty years ago. 

I think Mr. Alleyne did not survive her more than two or three years but not hav- 
ing any memoranda by which to fix with certainty the periods of their respective deaths 
cannot speak with accuracy. 

Charles Willing's younger daughter is my Mother. She was born in Philada. has 
always been a resident in Pennsylvania and never was to my knowledge beyond the limits 
of the U.S. She intermarried with my father Luke Morris also a native of Phila. and at 
all times a resident in Pennsya. The foregoing evidence is from hearsay entirely. He 
died in March 1802 as I well remember. 

The will of Charles Willing, of Newtown, Chester Comity, Pennsylvania, 
dated Febrtiary 11, 1788, proved April 19, 1788, appointed his wife Elizabeth 
Hannah, his brothers Thomas and Richard Willing, and his sons-in-law, John 
Foster Alleyne, Esq., of the Island of Barbadoes, and Luke Morris, of Phila- 
delphia, merchant, executors. To his sister Abby Willing he bequeathed five 
pounds " to buy a mourning ring in remembrance and token from a brother 
who retains a just sense of her affectionate attachment to him, shown on every 
occasion, but more especially in that towards his children." 

To each of his executors, in token of his love and afifection, five pounds. 
To his daughter, Elizabeth Gibbs Alleyne, of the Island of Barbadoes, his pint 
silver tankard, as a token of his affection. To daughter Ann IMorris, his two 
silver beakers or tumblers, with a silver waiter, as a token of his afifection. To 
his wife Elizabeth Hannah, his entire estate, during life, and then to be divided 
between his two daughters, Elizabeth Gibbs Alleyne and Ann Morris. Wit- 
nessed by James Willing, Henry Grubb and Owen Donnelly. (Philadelphia 
Wills, Liber U, folio 98.) 

Children of Charles Willing and Elizabeth H. Carrington : ^^ 

1. Elizabeth Gibbes Willing, born September 30, 1764; died February 12. 1820; 

married June 10, 1782, John Forster Alleyne, son of Thomas and Dor- 
othy Alleyne, of Braintree, Mass. 

2. ANN WILLING, born August 28, 1767; died January 11. 1853; married March 

9. 1786, Luke Morris. 



" Record from Family Bible in possession of Mrs. Charles Willing Littcll, of Baltimore, Md., 1897 : 
"This Book was an Affectionate Gift to Ann Morris from her Honor'd Mother Elizabeth Hannah 

Willing, April 22'^ 1789. 

Charles Willing son of Charles & Ann Willing was born in Philadelphia the 30«b day of May 1738 & was 

Marry'd to Eliz" Hannah Carrington in Barbados the 24"» Day of May 1760 by the Rev"! Mr. Haynes 

Gibbes. 

Eliz» Gibbes Willing Daughter of Charles & Eliz^ Hannah Willing was born this 30'" day of Sep' 1764, at 



254 THE ANCESTRY OF 

The will of Elizabeth Hannah Willing, of the Parish of St. James, Island of 
Barbadoes, widow of Charles Willing, late of Philadelphia, Esquire, dated Au- 
gust 12, 1795, proved February 24, 1796, bequeathed to her daughter, Eliza- 
beth Gibbes Alleyne, wife of John Forster Alleyne, Esquire, the interest of three 
hundred and fifty pounds, deposited in the hands of her husband, and in case of 
her death the said sum to the testator's granddaughter, Elizabeth Alleyne. If 
said granddaughter should die before her mother the said Elizabeth Gibbes 
Alleyne, then the above sum to the testator's daughter, to whom also was devised 
and to her said husband, three hundred and fifty pounds, in trust, for the use 
of the testator's daughter, Ann Morris, wife of Luke Morris, of Philadelphia, 
Esquire, and after her death to said daughter's children, but the principal to 
be paid to her said daughter if she survived her husband. 

Executors to rent or sell her house and stores, formerly Henry Fisher's, 
situated in Bridgetown, in the Parish of Saint Michael; the profits to be divided 
annually between her two daughters ; if estate was sold then the interest from the 
money to her two daughters, and upon the death of Elizabeth Gibbes Alleyne, 
to said Elizabeth's daughter Elizabeth Alleyne, one-half of the amount ; to the 
children of Ann Morris the other half, after their mother's death, or to their 
mother if she survived her husband. Residue of estate to her two daughters. 
Her son-in-law John Forster Alleyne and his wife appointed executors. Wit- 
nessed by Alice Neblett, Thomas Challenor and Richard Watson. (Certified 
copy of will from Barbadoes.) 



IV. Ann Willing, married Luke Morris. 

III. Thomas Willing Morris, married Caroline 

Maria Calvert. 
II. George Calvert Morris, married Elizabeth Kuhn. 
I. Rosalie Morris, married Robert Winder Johnson. 



Philadelphia about half an Hour past 8 OClock in the Morning & was Christned the — "■ day of October 
following by The Reverend Mr. Jacob Duche. 

Ann Willing Daughter of C'» & Eliz^ Hann** Willing was born August 28"' 1767 at half past 7, OClock in 
the Morning & was Christned the 7 of Oct. 1767 by the Rev* Mr. J. Duche. 

Barbados June io"> 1782. This day marry'd the above Named Eliz* Gibbes Willing in St. Michaels Chappel, 
To John Forster Alleyne, of the Parrish of S* James, Son of Thomas and Dorothy Alleyne; of Braintree in 
Massachusetts Bay, Aged Twenty years. By the Rev'^ Docf Thomas Wharton ; after due publication in 
both Parrishes. 

Barbados, May 14"" 1783. This day Haynes Gibbes Son of John Forster and Elizabeth Gibbes Alleyne was 
born at % past 12 in the Morning and was baptized the s'*" Tune following by the Rev* Dr. Wharton. 
Barbados. July 28*'' 1785. This day John Gay Alleyne son of John Forster & Eliz'' G. Alleyne was born, at 

about six OClock in the Morning & was baptized the following by the Reverend M'' . 

Black Harry, (known by the name of Harry Willing) was born the so'^ of May 1762 Sc bro' to America as an 
Indented Serv* by Cha^ Willing in 1784." 



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CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 

^^g^ 57- Information received since going to press leads to the 
belief that Arthur Denwood was the son and not the brother of 
Levin Denwood, Jr. 

Page 68. The number of the Pennsylvania Magashie (volume xxix.. 
page 315), which has just been issued, gives an abstract of the 
will of David Franks, of Isleworth, County of Middlesex, England, 
formerly of Philadelphia, which was dated July 30, 1785; proved 
July 22, 1794. It names his four children, Abigail Hamilton, Jacob 
Franks, Moses Franks and Rebecca Johnson, by which it appears 
that the information gathered from the volume quoted is erro- 
neous as to the place of David Franks' death, which was probably 
England. 

Page 116. In the text the name of the wife of John Christopher 
Kuhn is given as Margaret, daughter of Marx Reichss, which is in 
accordance with earlier researches. After the sketch had been 
written the result of an investigation made in the present year 
was received, in which the name appears as Fuchs (see page 117). 
The original is doubtless difificult to decipher, and it is possible 
that neither is quite correct. There will be noticed other varia- 
tions in the spelling of names and places in the two abstracts, both 
of which are given in the foot-notes. 

There is no question that in the baptismal record of the chil- 
dren at Hiitten, the mother is entered as nee Ruchin (page 118). 

Page 190. Eleventh line from the bottom, Vanderheyden should be 
Vanderspeyden. 

Page 197. The Stier family sailed from H elder, and not from 
Amsterdam. 

Page 219. To foot-note number three maybe added: Letters of 
administration on the estate of Mary Till were granted to Andrew 
Hamilton, as is shown by records at Wilmington, Delaware. 



INDEX 

Names in square brackets following Christian names, if in italics, have been acquired by marriage 
if in Roman type they give the woman's family name. 



Aberdare, Lord (See Henry Campbell 

Bruce) 
Acheson, Esther [Lyle], 141 
James, 141 
John, 141 
Sarah [Lyle], 141 
Adams, Charles Francis, 130 
John, 84, 178 

Louisa Catherine [Kuhn], 130 
Adamson, Mrs. Jane, 53 
Addams, Thomas, 112 
Addison, Rev. Mr., 169 
Aderne, Mary [Hyde], 140 
Aldricks, Peter, 235 
Allen, Andrew, 92, 93, 94 
Anne [Pcnn], 85, 94, 95 
Elizabeth [Lawrence], 94 
James, 92, 94 
John, 92, 94 

Margaret [DeLancey], 94, 95 
Margaret [Hamilton], 85, 92, 94 
Mary [Budd], 94 
Mary [Johnston], 94 
Mary [Richards, Morris], 151 
Nehemiah, 190 
Sarah, 28 
Sarah [Coxe], 94 
William (Chief Justice), 85, 89, 92, 93, 

94, 95, 96, 227 
William, 94, 95 
AUeyne, Charlotte Emily, 164 

Dorothy [ ], 253, 254 

Elizabeth, 254 

Elizabeth Gibbes [Willing], 250, 252, 

253, 254 

Haynes Gibbes, 254 

John Forster or Foster, 252, 253, 254 

John Gay, 254 

Thomas, 253, 254 
Alexander, James, gi, 92 
Alexander, Judge, 55 
Amnel, Mr., 124 
Anderson, Captain, 25 
Andrews, Rev. J., I94 
Andriessens, Barbe [Charlc], 200 



Andross, Sir Edmund (Governor), 188, 

232 
Appleton, Mary, 108, 181 
Archbold, Patrick, 144 
Armitt, John, 155, 158 

Richard, 155 
Armstrong, William, 221 
Arundel, Anne [Calvert], 15, 16 

Anne [Philipson], 16 

Thomas, Lord of Wardour, 16 
Ashburnham, Thomas, 106 
Ashton or Assheton 

Isaac, 182 

Ralph, 95 

Robert, 60, 80 

Sir William, 14, 15 
Aston, Widow, 93 
Atkins, Rev. Addison B., 34, 40 

Addison, B., Jr., 40 

Cornelia Lee, 40 

Ellen, 40 

Ellen C. [Stuart], 34, 40 
Atkinson, Edward, 104 

Samuel, 66 
Attwood, William, 153 
Atwood, W. A., 153 
Aubrey, Barbara [Bevan], 180 

Letitia [Penn], 180 

Sir Reginald, 180 

William, 180 
Avery, Captain John, 232, 233 

Bache, Algai [Dabadie], 122 

Benjamin, 122 

Benjamin Franklin, 122 

Franklin, 122 

Hartman, 122 

Margaret [Markoe, Duanc], 122 

Richard, 122 
Bacon, Sir Francis, 11 
Badcoke, Alexander, 155 
Baeckman, Mr., 125 
Bailey, John, 231, 232 

Jonathan, 235 



258 



INDEX 



Bailies. Bailys, Bayley, Baylis, Bayly 

Alice, I 

Alice [Chanders], i, 55 

Alice [Gitest], i, 55, 74, 75, 76, 152 

Alice [Sommerland], i 

Ann, I 

Elizabeth [ Chanders] (See Alice 
Bailyes) 

Elizabeth [Hard], i, 74, 76 

Hannah, i 

Joane, I 

John, I, 231, 232 

Margerie, i 

Mary, i 

Mary [Parks], i 

Phebe [Young], i 

Rebecca [Rose or Ross], i 

Samuel, i 

Sarah [Dyke], i 

Sarah [Guest], I 

William, i, 55, 74 
Baily, John, 232 
Baker, Captain John, 232 
Balch, Thomas Willing, 186 
Balderston, Elizabeth, 114 

Elizabeth [Langdale], 114 

John, 114 
Ballard, Thomas, 53 
Ballinger, Henry, 64 
Baltimore, Lords (See Calvert) 
Bankhead, Eleanor [Lyle], 140 
Banks, Hester, 92 

Barber, Hannah [Ogden, Hudson], 103, 
104, 105, 106 

Joseph, 61 

Robert, 105 
Barclay, Alexander, 61 

David, 61 

Rebecca [Evans, Robertson], 61 

Robert, 61 
Barker, Richard, 109 

Barkerville, [Loivle], 241 

Barnard, Mary [ ], 54 

Rev. Thomas, 54 
Barnes, Jon., 235 

Barney, Isabel Aitken [Harris], 131 
Barry, Thomas, 28 
Barton, Dr. John Rhea, 115 

Susan [Ridgway, Roach], 114, 115 
Bartram, Mr., 123 

Basseliers, Catherine [Bosschaert], 200 
Bateson, Catharine [Lyle], 141 



Batkin, Catherine [op den Craen], 199 

Charles, 199 

Madeleine [Chauwin], 199, 201 

Madeleine [Doncker], 199, 204 

Michel, 199, 204 
Batt, Sarah [Lyle], 141 

Thomas, 141 
Bauer, Anna Catharina [Keppele], 120 
Baxter, George, 72 
Bayard, Alderman, gi 

Frances [Moore], 145, 146 

Samuel, 146 
Bayly, John, 232 
Baywell, William, 235 
Bearmore, Rachel, 156 
Beckett, Constance Mary [Bruce], 142 

Hamilton, 85, 91, 98, 142 

Henry, 98, 142 

Henry Lyndhurst, 142 

James, 142 

Sir John, 142 

Marianne [Lady Whichcote], 98, 142 

Mary [Lyle], 98, 130, 142 

Mary [Wilson], 142 

Sophia Clarence [Copley], 142 

William, 31 
Bedford, Duke of, 21 

Grosvenor, 59, 61 
Bedwell, Honour, 107 
Belae, John, 19 
Bell, Captain, 224 

Benjamin, 95 

Sarah [Upshur], 6 

William, 95 
Benezet, Stephen, 92 
Bennett, Elizabeth [Biscoe], 30 

Marie [Bowie], 43 
Benson, Mary W. [Carter], 44 

Mr., 26 
Benydick, Thomas, 231 
Bernard, Ann [Johnston], 51 
Bethel, Samuel, 120 

Sarah [Kuhn], 120 
Bettle, Samuel, 113 
Bevan, Barbara [Aubrey], 180 

Elizabeth [Richardson], 180, 181, 182 

John, 180 
Bickerdike, Gideon, 159 
Bickley, Abraham, 180, 181, 182 

Dorothy [ ], 182 

Elizabeth [Richardson], 180, 182 
Biddle, Colonel Clement C, 166 

William, 63, 192 



INDEX 



259 



Bier, Annette Carter [White], 2)] 

Frederick George, Z7 

Mary Randolph [Carter], 2>7 
Billington, Matilda [A/orm], 163 

Sarah \.Morris\, 162 
Bingham, James, 145 
Binney, Horace, Jr., 98 
Bird, Polly, 120 
Biscoe, Ann Fitzhugh \.Steuart\, 30, 35 

Araminta [Thompson, Carroll], 30, 35 

Elizabeth [Bennett],' 30 

Elizabeth [Calvert], 29, 30 

George, 30, 35 

Thomas, 30 
Bishop, Margaret, 136 
Bissett, Elizabeth [Carrington], 51 
Bissle, William, 92 
Black, WiUiam, 95 
Blackstone, , 17 

[Calvert], 17 



Blackwell, George, 177 

John, 176, 177 
Bladen, Thomas, 21, 22, 23 
Blandford, Sarah Ann [Darnall], 42 
Blaykling, John, 104 
Blunstone, John, 100 
Bogardus, Aneke Jans [ ], 146 

Rev. Everardus, 146 
Bollen, James, 232 
Bom, Agnes [ , Morris], 149 

Cornelius, 149 
Bonanomi, Constance [Moens], 207 
Bonaparte, General Napoleon, 198 
Bond, Phineas, 144 

Thomas, 94 
Bonsall, Ann [Hibberd], 100 
Boone, Charles Louis, 131 

Daniel Alexius, 131 

Daniel Carroll, 131 

Isabel Barney [Harris], 131 

Mary Hamilton Kuhn, 131 
Boot, Christine [de Dcckcre], 203 
Booth, Joseph, 234 
Borel, Susanne [Chauzvin], 201 
Born, Petrus, 117 
Bosley, Mary [Steuart], 41 
Boss, Peter, 177 
Bosschaert, Andre, 200 

Catherine [Basseliers], 200 

Catherine [Lunden], 200, 206 

Claire [van Valckenburg], 200 
Corneille, 200 
Marie [de Groot], 200, 203 



Sybille [Schilder], 200, 212 

Walter, 200, 203 
Boude, Isaac, 235 
Boullemet, Cornelia [Calvert], 36 
Bouquet, General Henry, 192, 247 
Bourne, Sylvanus, 196 
Bourton, Ann, 112 
Bowdoin, Frances Key Murray, 171 

George Edward, 171 

Henry Johns, 171 

Julia Morris [Murray], 171 

Mary Graham, 171 

Colonel Peter, 6 

Preeson, 6 

Rosalie Calvert, 171 

Sarah [Eyre], 6 

Susanna [Preeson], 6, 7 
Bowie, Alice [Carter], 2^, 42 • 

Alice [Roberts], 42 

Annette Carter [Roberts], 43 

Calvert, 43 

Carter Lee, 43 

Colin, 43 

Marie [Bennett], 43 

Mary Oden [IVhitridge], 43 

Oden, 36, 42, 43 

Washington Booth, 43 

William Duckett, 43 
Bowling, Maria Louisa [Steuart], 42 

Philip Simms, 42 
Boyce, Jane [Peter], 33, 38 
Boynton, Elizabeth [Markoe], 121 
Boyse, Cheney, 3 
Bradburne, Alice [ ], 136 

John, 136 
Bradford, William, 175, 178 
Bradshaw, Thomas, 100 
Braem, Marguerite [Peelers], 207 
Brandreth, Timothy, 65 
Brandt, Claire [de Moy], 200 

Isabelle [Rubens], 200, 209, 211 

Jean, 2CX) 
Brerewood, Charlotte [Calvert], 19, 20, 47 

Thomas, 20 
Brian, Rebecca, 100 

Rebecca [Hank], 100 

Thomas, 100 
Briant, Benjamin, 100 
Brice, Ariana, 22, 29 
Bridgewater, Duchess of, 21 

Duke of, 21 
Brientnall, Joseph, 109 
Brincloe, John, 222 



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INDEX 



Bringhurst, Elizabeth, 158 

Mary, 158 
Bristol, Margaret, 60 
Brockden, C, 109 
Brogden, Annette [Carter], 2,7 

Henry, 2>7 

Mary, 27 

Stevenson, 27 
Brooke, Anna [Calvert], 15 

Richard, 15 
Brown, Anne {Preeson. Hamilton], 5, 6, 7, 

8, 58, 78, 79, 93, 95 
Elizabeth, 4 

Elizabeth [Preeson], 5, 6, 7, 8 
Frank Leonard, M.D., 132 
Isaac, 151 
John, 3, 4, 108 
Mary, 3, 4 

Mary [Littleton, Custis]. 5, 6, 7 
Paul S., 167 
Rosalie [Evans], 132 
Rev. R. T., 34 
Sarah, 3. 4 

Sarah [Upshur], 5, 6, 7 
Stephen, 3, 4 
Susanna [Denwood], 4, 5, 6, 7, 57, 58, 

78, 79 

Thomas, 3, 4, 5, 6, 57, 58, 78 

Ursula [ ], 3, 4 

Browne, John, 3 

Joseph, 75 

William Hand, 9 
Browning, John, 21 

Louisa [Calvert], 21 
Bruce, Constance Mary [Beckett], 142 

Henry Campbell, 142 
Bryan. , 140 

Eleanor [Steuart, Mines], 34 

Martha [Lyle], 140 

Nicholas, 34 
Bubwith, Dorothy [Shippen], 186 

Elizabeth [Wakefield], 186 

Ellen [Watkins], 186 

Richard, 186 

Thomas, 186 

Walter, 186 
Buckley, Abraham, 113 

Sarah [Morris], 161, 162 

William, 161, 162 
Budd, John, 155, 190 

Mary [Allen], 94 

Rose [Plumley, MclVilliams, Shippen], 
190, 191, 192 



Thomas, 75, 178, 191 
Bull, Henry, 188 
Biillinger, Christopher, 116 

Hans, 117 

John, 116, 117 

Margarete [ ], 117 

Bullock, John, 92 

William, 92 
Bunn, Nicholas, 185 
Burcomb, Anne, 240, 241 

Mary [Willing], 240, 241 

Stephen, 240, 241 
Burd, Edward, 195 

Edward Shippen, 195 

Elizabeth [Shippen], 195 

Colonel James. 195, 246 

Margaret [Coxe], 195 

Sarah, 195 

Sarah [ ], 195 

Sarah [Shippen], 195 

Sarah [Ycatcs], 195 
Burke, Edward, 15 
Burr, Henry, 108, no 

John, 108, 109, no 

Mary [Owen], 107, 108, IQQ, no 

Susannah, 108, no 

Susannah [Hudson, Owen], 108, 109, 
no 
Burton, Benjamin, 222, 228 

William, 235 
Bush, David. 221 
Butler, Colonel Edward G. W., 33 

Eleanor Parke [Lewis], 23 
Byrd. Maria Horsmandon, 250 

Mary [Willing], 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 

251 
Colonel William, 247, 250, 251 

Cable, Esther [Preeson], 6 
Cadwalader, General, 166, 167 

Hannah [Morris]. 155, 156 

John, 87, 88. 89, 181 

Rebecca [Morris], 151 

Thomas, 94. 228 
Caissa, Gran [Ersen], 125 
Caldwell, Andrew, 222 

John, loi 

Sarah [Markoe], 122 
Callendar. William, 156 
Calvert, [Blackstone], 17 

Alicia [Crossland], 9 

Amelia Isabella, 32 

Ann, 48 



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261 



Anna [Brooke]. 15 

Anne [Arundel], 15, 16 

Anne [Mynne], 9, 10, 15 

Anne [Peaseley], 10, 15, 16 

Anne [Somerset], 17 

Araminta Carroll, 31 

Araminta Carroll [Chew], 35 

Ariana, 28, 29 

Barbara, 20 

Benedict, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 
48, 170 

Benedict Leonard, 4th Lord Balti- 
more, 17, 18, 31 

Benedict Leonard, 19, 20, 21, 47, 48 

Caecilius, 29 

Cfficilius Baltimore, 31 

Caroline [Eden], 21 

Caroline Maria [Morris], 1, ^2, 46, 48, 
54, 55, 66, 73, 77, 100, 115, 163, 166, 
168, 169, 170, 171, 182, 195, 21S, 254 

Catharine Rush, 36 

Charles, 3d Lord Baltimore, 16, 17 

Charles, 5th Lord Baltimore, 18, 19, 
20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 47, 83 

Charles (Governor), 19, 21, 22, 47, 170 

Charles, 29 

Charles Baltimore, 37, 45 

Charles Benedict, 31, 32, 37, 45 

Charles Frederick, 31 

Charlotte [Brerezvood], 19, 20, 47 

Lady Charlotte [Lee], 18 

Charlotte Augusta [Norris], 32, 37 

Charlotte Augusta [S pence], 45 

Cecilius, 2d Lord Baltimore, 10, 12, 14, 
15, 16, 17, 216 

Cecilius, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 45 

Cecilius Baltimore, 36 

Clara Cecilia [Mitchell], 36 

Cornelia [Boullemet], 36 

Diana [Egerton], 21 

Dorothy, 10, 16 

Edward Henry, 19, 20, 27. 28, 29, 30, 47 

Eleanor [Cary], 45 

Eleanor [Custis, Stuart], 27, 28, 29, 30, 

34 
Eleanor [Mackubin], 37, 45 
Eleanora, 35 
Eleanora Adela, 31 
Elizabeth, 10, 16, 28, 31, 45 
Elizabeth [Biscoe], 29, 30 
Elizabeth [Calvert], 19, 22, 23, 25, 27, 

29, 47, 48, 170 
Elizabeth [Steuart], 28, 29, 30, 32, 34 



Elizabeth [Stone], 15 

Elizabeth G. [Randolph], 31 

Elizabeth Sophie [Peter], 35 

Ella, 35 

Ella [Catupbcll], 37, 44 

Ella Cecilius, 35 

Emma Eugenia, 35, 36 

Eugene Stier, 37 

Finley Heme, 36 

Frances [SeyboltJ, 37, 45 

Hon. Frances Dorothy, 21 

Francis, 10, 16 

Frederick, 6th Lord Baltimore, 20, 21, 

22 
George, ist Lord Baltimore, 9, 10, 11, 

12, 13, 14, IS, 16 
George, 10, 14, 15, 16, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 

32, 35, 45, 48, 166, 170, 199, 215 
George Edward, 35 

George H., 208 

George Henry, 31, 32, 37, 45, 170 

Grace [Talbot], 10, 15, 16 

Helen, 10, 14, 15 

Henry, 10, 14, 15, 16 

Henry J. Albert, 32 

Hester Virginia [Lilly], 45 

Jane [Hyde], 19, 20 

Jane [Lowe, Sewall], 17 

Jaques, 13 

Joane, Lady Baltimore, 12, 16 

John, 9, 10, 16, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 31, 

33, 35, 36, 39 
John Wentworth, 45 
Josephine R. [Wheeler], 36 
Jules van Havre, 37 

Julia Stockton [Rush], 31, 35, 36 

Julia [Stuart], 32, 37, 40, 170 

Julia Stuart, 45 

Juliana Margaret Anna, 31 

Laura [Hunt], 37 

Laura Louisa, 35 

Leonard, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 29 

Levinus, 14 

Louisa [Browning], 21 

Madison Rush, 36 

Margaret [ , Fits Gerald], 19, 20 

Margaret Agnes [Mahoney], 36 

Marian Glorvina [Wilson], 36 

Marie Louise, 32 

Mary [Jansen], 18, 19, 20, 21 

Mary [Powell], 30 

Mary Harriet [Hughes], 31. 36 

Octavius Augustus, 31 



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INDEX 



Philip, 14, 16, 17, 29 

Rebecca, 29 

Rebecca [GerrardJ, 47, 48 

Richard Mackubin, 45 

Robert, 29 

Roberta Lee Uudkins], 35 

Rosa [Kearney], 35 

Rosalie Eugenia, 37, 45 

Rosalie Eugenia ICarter], 32, 36 

Rosalie Eugenia [Stier], 29, 31, 32, 48, 
166, 170, 198, 199, 215 

Sadie [ , Perrine], 36 

Sarah Eleanor [Hungerford], 30, 35 

Sarah Stuart IHines, Huse], 35 

Sophia O. [Mulliken], 31 

Susan [Swann], 35 

Victoria Baltzell [Elliott], 36 

Washington Custis, 31 

William, 15, 27, 28, 29, 170 

William Beans, 31, 36 

William Henry White, 36 

William Norris, 37 
Camblos, Charles, 172 

Elizabeth [Patton], 172 

Ellen Lyle [Morris], 172 

Ellen Morris, 172 

James Lyle, 172 

Margaret, 172 

Rosalie Morris, 172 
Campbell, Anna Goldthwaite [McFee], 45 

Anne Esther [Goldthwaite], 44 

Charlotte [Nelson], 44 

Duncan G., 37, 44 

Ella [Calvert], 37, 44 

Ella Calvert [Smyth], 45 

Ellen Blair, 45 

John A., 44 

John Archibald, 45 

Dr. John Pendleton, 45 

Margaret Stuart, 45 

Martha Forrest [Hunter], 45 

Mary Potts [Johnson], 45 

Robert Hunter, 45 
Cann, Jon., 235 
Cannonier, Captain, 225 
Carey, James, Jr., 168 
Carlton, Henry L., 31 
Carman, James, 114 

Rachel, 114 

Richard, 115 

Sally, 114, 115 

Samuel, 114 

Sarah [Hudson], 114, 115 



William, 114, 115 
Carmatt, Joseph, 113 
Carmichael, Elizabeth [Lyle], 140 

Hugh, 140 

William, 219 
Carpender, Ann, 135 

Elizabeth [ , Conrsey], 135 

Mary, 135 

Mary [Lillingstoii], 135, 137, 216 

Simon, 135, 136 

William, 135, 137 
Carpenter, Abraham, 188 

Joshua, 60, 179 

Samuel, 105, 176, 177 

Symon (See Simon Carpender) 

Widows, 92 
Carrington, Ann [Newton], 49 

Ann [Thatcher], 49 

Anne [Mayo], 51, 52, 53 

Codrington, 51. 52, 53, 54 

Edward, 52 

Eliza G., 49 

Eliza Hannah [Willing]. (See Eliza- 
beth Hannah) 

Elizabeth, 51, 52, 53, 54 

Elizabeth [ ], 49 

Elizabeth [Bissett], 51 

Elizabeth [Gibbs], 252 

Elizabeth Hannah [JVilling], 50, 52, 
53, 54, 73, 163, 195, 247, 250, 252, 253, 
254 

George. 49, 51. 52, 53 

Hannah, 52 

Hannah [Hearne], 51, 52, 53 

Henningham, 52 

Henningham [Codrington], 49, 50, 51, 
52 

John, 51, 52 

Joseph, 52 

Judith, 51, 52 

Mary, 52 

Mary [Howell], 51 

Mary [Mellowes], 51. 53. 54 

Mayo, 49, 52 

Nathaniel, 51, 52 

Paul, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 252 

P. P., 50 

Peyton R., 49 

Robert, 51, 52 

Robert Codrington, 51. 52 

Thomazine [Waterland], 49, 51 

William, 51, 52 



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263 



Carroll, Araminta [Thompson, Biscoe], 30, 

35 

Charles, 23 

John, loi 
Cart, Joshua, 245 
Carter, Alice [Boivie], 36, 42 

Alice [Morgan], 43 

Alice Bowie [Fiske], 44 

Annette IBrogden], 37 

Aurora [Hazlehurst], 44 

Bernard, 36, 43 

Bernard Moor, 43 

Bernard Shirley, 43 

Charles Henry, 32, 36, 43 

Eleanor, 43 

Ella IGcorgcl, 37, 44 

Eugenia [Halll, 36 

George Calvert, 44 

Guy Norman, 44 

Harriet Norman, 44 

Jessie [Murchison], 44 

John Ridgely, 43 

Julian Stuart, 44 

Martha Custis [Williams], 39 

Mary Buckner [Ridgely], 36, 43 

Mary Louisa [White], 43 

Mary Randolph [Bier], 37 

Mary Ridgely, 44 

Mary W. [Benson], 44 

Mildred, 37, 43 

Mildred Randolph, 44 

Rosalie Eugenia [Calvert], 32, 36 

Rosalie Eugenia [Lazv~\, 43 

Sarah LDaingerfield], 43 

Shirley. 44 

S. P., 39 

Virginia, 44 
Carteret, Governor, 232 
Cartlidge, Ann [Richardson, Lane], 180, 
181, 182 

Edmund (See Edward) 

Edward (or Edmund), 180, 181, 182 
Cary, Eleanor [Calvert], 45 

Gibson, 45 

Grace Morris [Kiihn], 130 

Margaret G., 97 

Nancy [Gushing], 130 

William F., 130 
Castlemaine, Countess of (See Barbara 

Villiers) 
Cecil, Sir Robert, 9 
Chalkley, Thomas. 112 
Challenor, Thomas, 254 



Chamberlaine, Samuel, 24 

Chanders, Alice [Bailies or Bailycs] i, 55 

Elizabeth [Bailies], (See Alice) 
Thomas, i, 55 
Chapman, Mary [Shippen], 186 

William, 186 
Charle, Barbe [Andriessens], 200 

Isabelle [van IVyck], 200, 215 

Pierre, 200 
Charles, Simon, 63 
Chase, Thomas, 108 

Chauwin, Anne Therese [de la Bistrate], 
201, 203 

Helene [de Coninck], 201, 202 

Helene [de la Bistrate], 201, 203 

Jean, 199. 201, 203 

Madeleine [Batkin], 199. 201 

Paul, 201 

Susanne [Borel], 201 
Cheatham, John, 106, 107, 109 
Cheeus, Anne [de Schot], 201 

Anne Marie [Vincque], 201, 215 

Nicolas Corneille, 201 
Cheeves, Bartholomew, 73 
Cheston, Caroline Calvert [Morris], 172 

Charles Steele, 173 

Charlotte [Steele], 172, I73 

Charlotte Murray, 173 

Elizabeth Morris, 173 

Eugene Morris, 172 

Eugenia [Morris], 172, 173 

George Morris, 173 

James, 172, 173; Jr-> 172 

James Hamilton, 172 

Morris, 173 

Radcliffe, M.D., 173 
Chetham, Dr. Edward, 136 
Chevallier, J. A., 32 
Chew, Araminta Carroll [Calvert], 35 

Benjamin, 94, 98, 222, 228, 229 

S., 98 

Dr. Thomas C, 35 
Chichester, Harriet [Lyle], 140 
Christian, John Henry, 119 

Margaretha, 119 
Chun (See Kuhn) 
Churchill, General. 187 
Claggett, Rev. Thomas John, 30 
Clare, George, 105 

John, 109 

William. 109 
Clark, Eleanor Vinton [Murray], 170 

Walter, 188 



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INDEX 



William, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237 
Claus, George, 118 
Clayland, Mr., 136 
Clement, John (Judge), 65 
Cleveland, Captain, 224 

Duchess of (See Barbara Villiers) 
Clifford, Anna [Guest], 76 

Anna [Rawle], 127, 128 

John, 127 

Margaret [Guest], 76 

Thomas, 76 
Clifton, Robert, 234 

William, 161 
Clows, John, 222 
Coates, Alice [Langdale], 114 
Cockfield, Elizabeth [Hudson, Coebourn], 
no 

Hannah [Moode], 107, 109, no, 181 

Joshua, no, 181 
Codd, Berkly, 79, 219, 220, 236 

Mary [ , Watson], 79, 220, 236, 238 

Coddington, Mary [Howard, Morris], 149, 
ISO, 151, 152 

Thomas, 149 
Codrington, Admiral, 50 

Christopher (Lt. -Governor), 50 

Christopher, Jr., 50 

Henningham Warrington], 49. 50, 51, 
52 

John, 50 
Coebourn, Elizabeth [Hudson, CockHeld], 
no 

Thomas, no 
Coenens, Jeanne [Jacobs], 196 

Pierre, 196 
Cogan, Codrington, 53 
Coggeshall, Preserved, 219 
Coleman, William, 95 
Colladay, C. T., 167 
•Collier, John, 104 
Collin, Dr. Nicholas, 125 
Compton, Eleanor [Steuart, Watson], 41 

Lawrence, 41 
Congreve, Charles, 145 
Conrad, Angela [Lewis], 33 

Charles M., 33 
Cook, Arthur, 176, 177 

Margaret [Morris], 151 
■Cooke, Arthur, 75 

Mary, 181 

W., 28 
Cooper, Benjamin, 112 

Hannah, 159 



Hannah [Dent], no 

Joseph, 65, no, 112 

Lydia [ ], no 

Mary, 112 

Mary [Hudson], no 
Copley, Sir Lionel, 17 

Sophia Clarence [Beckett], 142 
Corbett, Anna, 236 

Roger, 236 
Core, Enoch, 63 

Sarah, 112 
Corker, William, 145 
Cornbury, Lord, 188 
Cornthwaite, William, 104 
Cornwell, John, 104 
Corse, Catherine [Ketchum], 132 

Israel, 132 

Lena Burr [Evans], 132 
Cottington, Lord, 14, 15 
Cotton, John, 72 
Coursey, Elizabeth [ , Carpender], 135 

Colonel Henry, 135 

Jane, 135 

William, 135 
Covington, , 57 

Rebecca [Denwood], 57 
Cowper, Lady, 187 
Cox, Georgina A. [Lyle], 141 

Martha, 107 

Ponsonby, 141 

William, 227 
Coxe, D. W., 195 

Esther Maria [Lewis], 33 

Margaret [Burd], 195 

Mary [Francis], 94 

Sarah [Allen], 94 

William, 94, 229 
Craig, James, 114 
Cramond, William, 96 
Cranmer, Thomas, 220 
Crawford, Mary, 161 
Crequi, Elizabeth [Markoe], 121 

Frank, 121 
Cromie, Harriet [Lyle], 140 
Crookshanks, Alexander, in 

Rebecca [Hudson], 108, 109, in 
Cropper, Leven, 228 
Crosby. Joshua, 158 
Crosfeld, Effam [Nunes], 186 
Crosman, Eva Barbara [Schrack], 184, 185 

Johan Georg, 184 
Crossland, Alicia [Calvert], 9 
Croswell, Hannah, 238 



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265 



Cummings or Cummins 

Rev. Archibald, 248, 252 
Curtis, Mabel Estelle [Evans], 132 
Cushing, Nancy [Gary], 130 
Custis, Ann [Kendall], 7 

Anne [Upshur], 7 

Cassandra, 7 

Daniel Parke, 29 

Eleanor [Calvert, Stuart], 27, 28. 29, 
30, 34 

Eleanor Parke [Lewis], 29, s;} 

Eliza Parke [Law], 29, 32, 33 

George Washington Parke, 29, 33 

Hancock, 7 

John, 6, 7 

John Parke, 29 

Levin, 7 

Martha [Dandridge, Washington], 29, 
32 

Martha [Peter], 29, 32, 33 

Mary [Brown, Littleton], 5, 6, 7 

Mary [Fitzhugh], 29, 33 

Mary Randolph [Lee], 33, 39 

Southey, 7 

Theophilus, 7 
Cutler, Rev. Manasseh, 96 
Cutting, Jane [Hartrec], 57 

John, 57 

Leonard, 57 

Mary [Denwood], 57 
Cutts, George, 220 

Dabadie, Algai [Bache], 122 

Daemen, Sibesta [van Tetz], 214 

Dahlman, Professor, 124 

Daingerfield, Sarah [Carter], 43 

Dalby, Thomas, 6 

Dalheu, Captain Pierre, 225 

Dandridge, Martha [Custis, Washington], 

29, 32 
Darnall, Colonel, 25 

Henry, 24, 25 

Henry Bennett, 42 

Louisa Ann [Stcuart], 35, 42 

Sarah Ann [Blandford], 42 
Darvall, William, 234. 235 
Davids, Elizabeth, 233 
Davies, John, 104 
Davis, Alonzo Bertram, 40 

Caroline Calvert [Stuart], 40 

Eugenia Stuart, 40 

Evan, 107, 113 

Rebecca, 96 



Richard, 238 

William, 155 
Dawson, George, 188 
De Baillheke, John, 138 
de Brialmont, de Mont dit 

Barbe [van Wyck], 201, 202, 215 

Gilles, 201, 202, 215 

Helene Franqoise [dc la Bistratc], 202, 
204 

Jacques, 201, 206 

Jacques Jean, 202, 206 

Jeanne Catherine [Lunden], 202, 206 

Marie [Masquel], 201 

Maria [MacquereelJ, 201, 206 
de Buckere, Maria [de Coninck], 202 
de Chimay, Prince, 208 
de Cock, Catherine [Lcnimcns], 206 
de Coninck, Anne Marie [Macquereel], 
202, 206 

Catherine [Le Candele], 202, 205 

Catherine [Pcetcrs], 202. 207 

Helene [Chauwin], 201, 202 

Jacques, 202, 212 

Jean, 202, 206 

Louis Frangois, 202, 205 

Maria [de Buckere], 202 

Marie Mathilde [Schilder], 202. 212 

Marie Mathilde [van den Cruyce], 202. 
213 
Decow, Hannah [Marshall], 104 

Isaac, 104 

Jacob, 104 
de Deckere, Christine [Boot], 203 

Dymphne [van den Cruyce], 203, 212, 
213 

Pascal, 203 
de Groot, Henri, 203 

Marie [Bosschacrt], 200, 203 

Sybille [Diisterlo], 203 
De Hart, Mauritz, 146 

Mr., 145 
de la Bistrate, Anne Therese [Chauwin]. 

201, 203, 204 
Charles, 203 

Cornelie [Doncker], 203, 204 

Jean Baptiste, 202, 204 

Jean Charles, 203, 204 

Frangoise [dc la Disme], 203 

Gilles, 203 

Helene [Chauwin], 201, 203 

Helene [Vivien], 203 

Helene Frangoise [de Brialmont], 

202, 204 

Isabelle Helene [Stier], 196, 204 



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INDEX 



de la Disme, Fran(;oise [dc la Bistraic], 203 
De Lancey, Ann LVan Cortland], 67 

Chief Justice, 78 

James, 95 

Margaret [Allen], 94, 95 

General Oliver, 67, 68 

Phila [Franks], 67, 68 

Stephen, 67 

Rev. William H., 130, 131 

Delanoy, , 14S 

de Moy, Claire [Brandt], 200 

Densey, Sarah, 105 

Dent, Hannah [Cooper], no 

Captain Lawrence, 223 

Robert, no 
Denton, Daniel, 231, 232 

Nathaniel, 231 
Denwood, Arthur, 57, 256 

Elizabeth, 57 

Esther [Robinsl, 57 

Levin, 3, 4, 57, 256 

Liveinge, 57 

Luke, 57 

Mary [ ], 4 

Mary [Cutting], 57 

Mary [Woolford], 57 

Priscilla [ ], 57 

Rebecca [Covington], 57 

Sarah [Hicks], 57 

Susanna [Brown], 4, 5, 6, 7, 57, 58, 78, 

79 
De Peyster, Isaac, 145, 146 
de Potestad, Alice Lee [George], 44 

Ella Alice Lee, 44 

Robert E. Lee, 44 
de Schot, Anne [Cheetis], 201 
Devonshire, Alice, 144 
Dickey, John, 156 
Dickinson, Jonathan, 188 
Dietschen, Anna Maria, 118 

Ulrich, n8 
Digges, Ann [Steuart], 30 

Ignatius, 23, 24, 27 
Dilwyn, Susanna, 158 
Dimsdale, Robert, 63 

William, 158 
Dixon, Sarah, 130 
Donaldson, John J., 168 

Thomas, 167 
Doncker, Anne [van Veltwyck], 204 

Balthasar, 204 

Cornelie [de la Bisfrate], 203, 204 

Elizabeth [Greyns], 204 



Jean, 204 

Madeleine [Baikin], 199, 204 

Madeleine [Hockaert], 204 

Melchior, 204 
Donnelly, Owen, 253 
Dorsey, Josephine [Johnson], 165 

Mary [Murray], 170 
Dougall, Captain William, 225 
Dougherty, Dennis, 160 
Doughty, Thomas, 19 
Dowell, Captain, 225 
Draper, Nehemiah, 228 
Draycoate, Bridget, 15 
Drechsler, Benedict, 118 

John, 118 
Drumond, Walter, 161 
Drury, William, 151 
Duane, Anastasia, 122 

Edward Markoe, 122 

Elizabeth, 122 

Emma, 122 

Margaret [Markoe, Bachc], 122 

Margaret Markoe, 122 

Sidney, 122 

William, 122 
du Bignon, Louisa [Steuart], 41 
Duche, Rev. Jacob, 163, 249, 250, 254 
Dugan, Louise Shaub [George], 44 
Dulaney, Daniel, 48 

Rebecca [ ], 48 

Dungan, John, 188 

Dunleath, Lady (See Fanny Lyie Mulhol- 

land) 
Dury, Elizabeth [Morris, Lewis], 150, 151 

Sarah [Morris], 151 
Diisterlo, Sybille [dc Croat], 203 
Dwight, W. T., 167 
Dwyer, Francis, 161 

William, 161 
Dyer, John, 242 

Margaret [Lozvlc], 242 
Dyke, Sarah [Baylis], i 
Dyre, William, 238 

Eastburn, Benjamin, 221 
Eckley, John, 176, 177 
Eden, Caroline [Calvert], 21 

Nathaniel, 52 

Robert, 21 
Edgar, Rev. Mr., 48 
Edgcome, Nathaniel, 77, 181 
Edgell, Sarah, 96 
Edsall, Samuel, 232 



INDEX 



267 



Eelkens, Jeanne [van den Cruycc], 212 
Egerton, Lady Diana ICalvcrt], 21 
Ehrenpfort, John Frederick, 119 
Elder, Alexander, 218, 219 

Elizabeth [Till], 218, 219, 224 
Eldridge, Jonathan, 66 
Obadiah, 76 
Phebe [Guest], 76 
Elfreth, Jeremiah, 156 
Ellet, Mrs., 69 

Elliott, Victoria Baltzell [Calvert]. 36 
Ellis, Daniel C, 142 
Margaret, 156 
Robert, 61, 145 
Rowland, 108 
Enilen, George, 109, in 

Hannah [Garrett], 109, in 
Hudson, 108, III 
Joshua, 76, 109 
Mary, 157 

Mary [Holton, Hudson]. 76, 109 
Rachel [Hudson], 107, 108. 109. in 
Samuel, 107. 109. m 
Sarah, 108, in 
England, Hannah, 181 

Thomas, 155 
Entwistle, Ellen [Lyle, Markland], 140 

John, 140 
Ersen, Andrew, 125 

Gran [Caissa], 125 
Erskine, Mr., 78 
Estaugh, John, 112 
Etting, Frank M., 80, 235 
Evans, Evens, Evines 
Agnes, 64 

Cadwalader, 131, 132 
Edith Corse, 132 
Elizabeth, 100. 112 

Elizabeth [Hanke], 64, 65, 66, 100, in 
Ellen [Kuhn], 129, 130, I3i> ^32 
Ellen Lyle, 132 
Ellen Lyle [Mahan], 132 
Ester, 112 
Esther [Haines], 65 
Harriet V., 131, 132 
Hartman Kuhn, 132 

J- 159 

Jane [Hodges], 63, 64 

Jane [Hudson], 66, 100, no, in, 112, 

113, 157, 182 
Jean (See Jane [Hodges] Evans) 
John (Lt.-Governor), 59, 148, 189. 237: 

238 



John, 61, 65, 66, 159 

Joseph, 63, 65 

Julia, 132 

Lena Burr ICorsel. 132 

Lena Cadwalader, 132 

Mabel Estelle [Curtis]. 132 

Manlius Glendour, 129. 130, 131, 132 

Margaret [Franks], 62, 67, 68, 69. 97, 

134, 148 

Mary, 62 

Mary [Moore], 59, 61, 62. 68. 144. 145, 
148 

Owen, 184 

Peter, 59, 60. 61, 62, 68, 144, 145, 146, 
148 

Rebecca [Moore], 59, 144, 145, 148 

Rebecca [Owen], 65 

Rebecca [Robertson, Barclay]. 61 

Rosalie [Broion]. 132 

Sarah, 64 

Sarah [Hackney], 64 

Thomas, 63, 64, 65, 66, 112 

William, 63, 64, 65, 66. 100. in. 112, 
113, 159, 160 
Eves, John, 112 

Thomas, 63, 64 
Ewer, Robert, 178 
Eyre, Littleton, 6 

Sarah [Bowdoin], 6 

Falconar. Gilbert, 79 
Falkingham, Ann [Mellowes]. 54 

Henry, 54 
Fallon. Agnes Rosalie. 166 

Ann Willing, 166 

Anthony Morris, 166 

Christopher Francis, 166 

Edward Fleming, 166 

John, 165 

John Antonio, 166 

Josephine Fleming. 166 

Susan Elizabeth [Johnson I. 165 
Farrell, Patrick, iS5 
Fells, Captain, 146 
Fendall, Josias, 16 
Fenwick, Thomas. 237 
Field, Nehemiah. 238 
Finney, Andrew. 7 

Captain. 148 

Elizabeth [Upshur], 7 
Fisher, Abraham, 28 

Elizabeth Powell, 164 

Henry, 54- 254 



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INDEX 



Joshua Francis, 78, 89, 164 

Margaret, 114 

Martha, 114 

Mary, 114, 115 

Thomas, 137, 138, 235, 236, 237 

William, 236 
Fiske, Alice Bowie [Carter], 44 

Arthur Lyman, 44 
Fitz Gerald, James, 20 

Margaret [ . Calvert], 19, 20 

Fitzhugh, Mary [Cusiis], 29, 33 
Fitzroy, Lady Charlotte, 18 
Fitzwater, Martha [Morris], 156 
Fletcher, Colonel, 177 
Flitz, Anna Margaret, 116 

Christian, 116 
Fonmes (See Ponmes) 
Foote, Sarah [Stuart], 29 
Forbes, General, 192, 193 

Hugh, 152 
Forrest, Elizabeth, 168 

Louisa, 168 
Forscalleus, Mr., 124 
Forster, Ralph, 28 
Forward, Christopher, 245 
Foster, John, 231 

Josiah, 66 
Fourment, Helena [Rubens], 210 
Fox. James, 178, 179 

Foxley, Marie or Mary [Tilghman] 216, 217 
Frampton, William, 235 
Francis, Ann [Willing], 245, 246, 247, 248, 
249, 250, 251 

Charles, 250 

Elizabeth [Lawrence], 94 

John, 250 

Mary [Co. re], 94 

Mary [Shippen], 195 

Sophia, 250 

Tench, 93, 247, 250 

Thomas, 250 

Thomas Willing, 250 

Willing, 250 
Franklin, Dr. Benjamin, 83, 85, 86, 122, 191 

Deborah [Morris], 160, 161, 162 

John, 160, 161, 162 
Franks, Abigail [Hamilton], 8, 58, 62, 69, 
70, 71, 85, 96, 97, 98, 134, 139, 141, 
148, 174, 217, 229. 239, 256 

Bilhah Abigail [Levy], 67, 68, 134 

David, 59, 60, 62, 67, 68, 69. 70, 85, 97, 
134. 148, 256 

David S., 68 



Jacob, 67, 68, 69, 70, 134, 256 

John, 69 

Margaret [Evans], 62, 67, 68, 69, 97, 

134, 148 

Mary ("Polly"), 69 

Moses, 68, 70, 256 

Naphtali, 67 

Phila [DeLanccy], 67, 68 

Polly (See Mary) 

Rebecca [Johnson], 69, 70, 256 
Freeman, Mary Woolsey [Johnson], 132 
Freickel, Elias Lewis, 157 
French, John, 64, 83 

Joseph, 112 

Robert Samuel, 5, 6 

Samuel (See Robert Samuel) 
Friend, George, 218 
Frisby, Francis, 136 

James, 136 

Mary [ ], 136 

Frost, Elizabeth [Watson, Gray], 71, 231 

William, 71, 231 
Fuchs, Margareta [Kuhn], 117 

Marx, 117 
Fulkes, Thomas, 174, 218, 219 
Fuller, Daniel, 161 

Gage, Joane [Lowle], 242 

John, 242 

Mr., 16 
Galbraith, Florence A. [Lyle], 141 

Rev. G., 141 
Gale, [Leatherbury], 93 

George, 93 

John, 7 

Leah [Littleton], 7 
Galloway, Jane [Shippen], 195 
Gait Elizabeth [Harrison], 132 
Garden, Mr., 125 
Gardiner, Susan [Littell], 169 
Gardner, Thomas, 106 
Garrett, Anne, 65 

Hannah [Emlcii], 109, 11 1 

John W., 13 

William, 100 
Garth waite, Rachel [Marshall], 76, 104 
Geere, Edward, 104 
George, Agnes Dugan, 44 

Alice Lee [de Potestad], 44 

Archibald Lord, 44 

Charles Henry Carter, 44 

Eleanor Bernard, 44 

Ella Calvert, 44 



I 



INDEX 



i6g 



Ella [Carter], 37, 44 

Ella Carter, 44 

Louise Shaub [Dugan], 44 

Robert E. Lee, 44 

Samuel Knox, 37, 44 
Gerrard, Elizabeth [ ], 47, 48 

John, 47 

Mr., 25 

Rebecca [Calvert], 47, 48 
Gibbes, Rev. Haynes, 253 
Gibbs. , 38 

Elizabeth [Carrington], 252 

Martha Custis [Peter], 38 
Gibson, David, 155 

James, 6, 96 

John, 6 

Sarah [Preeson], 6 
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 11 
Gilmer, Allen D., M.D., 165 

Anne M. [Johnson], 165 
Givans, Dorothy. 236 
Godevaerts, Marie [Macquerecl], 206 
Godwin, Daniel, 5 

Susanna [Preeson], 5 
Goldsmid, Edward, 98 
Goldthwaite, Anne Esther [Campbell], 44 
Gooding, John, 222 
Gordon, Rev. John, 22 

Mary Hamilton [Kuhn], 131 

Patrick (Governor), 80. 83 

Rowland Huntly, 131 

Gould, [Steuart]. 41 

Govaerts, Sara [Schrynmaeckers], 212 

Graeme, , 80 

Grafton, Duke of, 18 
Grant, Jane, 113 

Samuel, 167 
Gratz, Hyman, 6S 

Joseph, 68 

Simon, 68 
Graves, Jonathan, Sr., 236 
Gray. Edward, 136 

Elizabeth [Frost. JVatson]. 7i> 231 

John, 71. 231 

Mary [ ]. 192 

Mary [Nowland. Shippcn], 192 

Robert. 232 

Samuel. 234 

William, 150, I55> 192 
Graydon, Colonel, 140 

George, 140 

John, 140 

Mary [Lyle], 140 



Sarah, 140 

William, 140 
Green, Eliza [Kuhn], 120 

Gordon Winslow, 41 

Hugh, 120 

John, 104 

Mary Rosalie [Steuart], 41 

Thomas, 108 
Greene, Thomas, 16, 74 

W., 235 
Greenleaf, Rebecca [Webster], 34 
Greenleafe, Isaac, 158 
Greg. Sarah [Lyle], 140 

Thomas, 140 
Greyns, Elizabeth [Doncker], 204 

Elizabeth [van Baerle], 204 

Lambert, 204 
Griffiths, Abigail, 155 

William, 155 
Grififitts, Abigail. 157 

Mary, 158 

William, 157 
Grisvvold, Mr., 247 
Gross, Grosse 

Abigail [Shippen]. 72,, 190. 191. 192. 
193, 194, 241, 248 

Clement, 72, 73 

Edmund, 72 

Edward. 72 

Elizabeth [ ], 72, 191- I94 

Elizabeth [More], 73 

Hannah, 72 

Isaac, 72 

Mary [ ], 72- 72> 

Matthew, 72 

Susanna, 72. 73 

Thomas, 72, 191. 194 

Widow, 72 
Groves, Luke, 220 

Mary, 220 

Thomas, 220 
Growden. Grace, 158 

Joseph, 176, 177, 179 

Lawrence, 228 
Grubb, Elizabeth. 112 

Henry, 253 
Grymes. Mary [Stuart], 40 

Mary Stuart, 40 

Rosalie Eugenia, 40 

William D., 40 
Guest, Alice [Bailyesl, i, 55. 74. 75. 76. 152 

Anna [Clifford], 76 

Elizabeth, 75 



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Elizabeth [Holton], 75, 76, 109 

Elizabeth [Marshall], 76 

Elizabeth [Simmons], 76 

George, i, 55, 74, 75, 76, 77. 1S2 

James, 76 

Jane [ ], 76 

Joane [ ], 74 

John, I, 74, 75, 76 

Jonathan, 76 

Margaret [Clifford], 76 

Marshall, 76 

Mary, 76 

Mary [6"a3;], 75 

Phebe [Eldridge], 76 

Phebe [Aform], i, 55, 76, 77, 151, 152, 
154, 156, 157 

Rachel, 76 

Sarah [ ], 74 

Sarah [Baylis], i 
Guilford, Lord, 21, 47 
Gulemann, Anna Catherine [ ], 118 

John Jacob, 118 

Hackney, Sarah [Evans], 64 

Thomas, 64 
Haines, Esther [Evans], 65 
Haldimand, General Frederick, 247 
Hall, Andrew, 247 

Ann [Steuart], 35, 41 

Carter, 36 

C. C, LL.B., 9 

Clarence, 36 

David, 228 

Ella, 36 

Eugenia [Carter], 36 

Frank, 36 

Henry Augustus, 41 

Julian, 36 

Mary [Stevenson], 41 

Nicholas, 36 

Robert, 36 

Rosalie Eugenia, 36 

William W., 31 
Hallowell, Rosamond [Till], 219 

Thomas, 219 
Hamersley, William, 146 
Hamersly, T. H. S., 170 
Hamilton, Abigail [Franks], 8, 58, 62, 69, 
70, 71, 85, 96, 97, 98, 134, 139, 141, 148, 
174, 217, 229, 239, 256 

Alexander, 84 

Andrew, 5, 6, 7, 8, 58, 62, 69, 70, 71, 78, 
79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 



90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 

107, 112, 134, 139, 141, 148, 174, 217, 

225, 227, 229, 237, 239, 256 
Ann [Lylc], 8, 58, 62, 70, 71, 97, 98, 99, 

129, 134, 139, 141, 142, 148, 174, 217, 

229, 239 
Anne [Brown, Preeson], 5, 6, 7, 8, 58, 

78, 79, 93, 95 

Eliza [Urquhart,] 98 

Franks, 98, 99 

James, 6, 79, 83, 84, 85, 92, 93, 94, 95, 
96, 97, 98, 112, 161, 228 

Margaret, 7, 96, 97 98, 130, 142 

Margaret [Allen], 85, 92, 94 

Mary, 97, 98, 130, 142 

Mary Ann [Palairet], 98 

Mary [Till], 8, 58, 71, 79, 94, 95, 96, 97, 
139, 174, 217, 227, 229, 239 

Rebecca [O'Bierne], 96, 98, 99 

William, 69, 79, 85, 89, 94, 95, 96, 97, 
227, 229 
Hammans, William, 158, 159 
Hammon (See Hammans) 
Hammond, Charles, 24 

Elizabeth, 104 

Jane [Lillingston], 135, 136, 137 

Thomas, 104, 136, 137 

William, 137 
Hancock, Timothy, 112 
Hands, Margaret, 19 
Hank, Hanke, Hanks 

Elizabeth [Evans[, 64, 65, 66, 100, iii 

John, 100 

Luke, 100 

Rebecca [Brian], 100 
Hansel, Emma [Johnson], 166 
Harberger, Christopher, 98 
Harcomb, John, 108 
Hard, Elizabeth [Bailyes], i, 74, 76 

William, i, 75, 76 
Harden, Thomas, 63 

Hardwicke, Lord (Sir Philip Yorke), 84 
Hare, Ann [ ], 164 

Charles Willing, 164 

Judge L Clark, 168 

Margaret [Willing], 248, 249, 251 

Martha, 164 

Robert, 248, 249 

Robert H., 167 
Hargrave, Captain, 223 
Harper, Thomas, 161 

Harrington, Helen Arcadia (Littell], 170 
Harris, Cornelius Hartman Kuhn, 131 

Ethel Crothers [Heberton], 131 



INDEX 



271 



Hamilton Kuhn, 131 

Isabel Aitken [Barney], 131 

Isabel Barney [Boone], 131 

James Hamilton, 131 

Joseph Conkling, 131 

Joseph Ridgely, 131 

Mary Hamilton, 131 

Mary Hamilton [Kuhn], 98, 131 

Richard, 69 

Rev. T. A., 172 

Thomas C, 131 
Harrison, Anne UVilliiig], 240, 241, 248 

Anne Triplett [Jackson], 132 

Boiling Haxall, 132 

Charles, 241 

Charles Kuhn, 132 

Colonel, 136 

Elizabeth [Gait], 132 

Emily [Kuhn], 129, 132 

Emily Kuhn [Lyon], 133 

Emily Kuhn [Symington], 132 

Evelyn Arnold, 3, 133 

Hall, 132 

Hartman Kuhn, 133 

John Triplett, 133 

Joseph, 193 

Katherine [Noble], 193 

Louisa Haxall [Riley], 132 

Louisa Triplett [Haxall], 132 

Mary [Morris], 162 

Philip Haxall, I33 

Richard, 104 

Samuel Thompson, 129, 132 

Sophia, 164 

Susan or Susannah [Shippen], 193, I94 

General Thomas, 240, 241 

William Gilpin, 132 
Hart, Governor John, 18, 21, 47, 78 
Hartman, Elizabeth [Markoe, Kuhn], loi, 
120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 129, 185 

Isaac, loi, 121, 122 

Isaac Benjamin Nanton, lOi 

Jemima [ ], lOi 

John, loi 

John William Hunt, loi 

Margaret Carrol [Nanton], loi. 121, 
122 

Mary, loi 

Peter, loi 

William, lOi 
Hartree, Elias, 57 

Jane [Cutting], 57 
Harvey, John, 112 
Harvy, Sarah, 66 



Hasdrigg, [Lowle], 241 

Hatfield, Jane, 105 
Hawkins, Captain Richard, 49, 50 
Haxall, Louisa Triplett [Harrison], 132 
Hazlchurst, Aurora [Carter], 44 
Head, John, no 

Mary, 102 

Mary [Hudson], 108, 109, no 
Hearne, Ann, 51, 52 

Codrington, 51, 52 

Elizabeth, 51, 52, 53 

Hannah [Carrington], 51. 52, 53 

John, 51, 52, 53 

Nathaniel, 51, 52 

Ruth, 5i> 52 

Walter, 51, 52 

Walter John, 52 
Heberton, Ethel Crothers [Harris]. 131 
Heck, Lewis, 121 
Hedges, Joseph, 66 
Heft, George, 192 

Mr., 191 
Heil, George, 161 
Heinzelman, Matthias, 185 
Hellemans, Anne [Helman], 205 

Charles, 204, 205 

Jeanne Catherine [van den Cruyce], 
205, 213 

Lucrece [Mannetti], 204, 205 

Marie [Helman], 205 

Pierre, 205 
Helman, Anne [Hellemans], 205 

Catherine [van der Veken], 205 

Constance [Rubens], 205, 211 

Ferdinand, 205 

Marie [Hellemans], 205 
Henderson, Elizabeth Jane [Peter], 33. 38 

Rev. Jacob, 47, 48 
Henley, Sir Robert, 20 

Williamza [Jansen], 20 
Herbst, George Christopher, n6. 117 
Heritage, Hana, n2 

Joseph, 112 
Herman, Anna Margaretta [Vanderspey- 

den], 190 
Hervey, Eleanor Augusta K. A. [Lylc, 
Rathbonc], 141 

Captain Felton, 141 
Hesselius, Gustavus, 107 
Heupi, John, 118 

Martha, n8 
Hewlings, Jacob, n2 
Heyliger, Mary Aletta [Markoe], 122 



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INDEX 



Hibberd, Ann [Bonsall], lOO 

Josiah, 100 
Hicks, Sarah [Denwood], 57 
Hiester, Governor Joseph, 166 
Hildeburn, Charles R., 186, 193, 240 
Hill, Jacob, 57 

John, 138. 234, 23s, 237 
Hillegas, Michael, 156 
Hiltzheimer, Jacob, 97 
Hines, , 34 

Dr., 35 

Eleanor ISteuart, Bryan], 34 

Sarah Stuart [Calvert, Huse], 35 
Hinman, Richard, 221 
Hobson, Mary Lane Uohnsoti], 165 
Hockaert, Madeleine [Donckcr], 204 
Hodges, Jane [Evansl, 63, 64 
Hodgson, Peter, 61, 62 

Robert, 188 
Holland, Edward, 146 
Holliday, Caroline Calvert [Stuart], 38 

Carrie Stuart, 38 

Colonel F. W. M., 38 
Holme, Thomas, 235 
Holmes, Richard, HjS 
Holt, Ryves, 221 

Samuel, Jr., 145 
Holton, Arthur, 75, 76, 77, 109 

Elizabeth [Guest], 75, 76, 109 

John, 76 

Mary [Htidson, Emlen], 76, 109 
Home (See Hume) 
Hooft, Petronille Dirck [Pietersen], 196 
Hoopes, Joshua, 179 
Hootton, Thomas, 105 
Hope, Mr., 125 
Hopkins, Eliza Ann [Steuart], 34 

Isaac, 34 

Joel, 168 
Hopkinson, Francis, 94 

Thomas, 96, 192, 246 
Horner, Isaac, 112 
Horslay, Elizabeth, 104 
Horsley, Charles, 232 
Hoskins, Jane, 159 
Howard, John, 149, 188 

Knight, 238 

Mary [Coddington, Morris], 149, 150, 

151, 152 
Rebecca [Richardson, Shippen], 186, 

187, 188, 191, 194 
Thomas, 238 
Howell, Hannah [Hudson], 108, 109, no 
Jacob, Jr., 108 



Joseph, no 

Mary [ ], 108, 109 

Mary [Carrington], 51 

William, 102 
Howson, Robert, 8 
Hubbell, John. 242 

Mary [Lowle], 242 
Hudson, Abigail [Skelton], 103 

Ann [Wayes], 103 

Deborah, 108, 109, iii 

E., 164 

Eleanor, no 

Elizabeth, 107 

Elizabeth [Cockfield, Coebourn], no 

Elizabeth [Jones], 108, 109, no 

Elizabeth [Morris], i, 55, 66, 77, 100, 

112. n3. n4, 11$, 156, i57, 158, 160, 
162, 163, 181, 182, 250 

Elizabeth [Rochford], 103 
Hannah, 112, 181 

Hannah [ , Preston], no 

Hannah [Howell], 108, 109, no 

Hannah [Medcalf], 109, in 

Hannah [Ogden, Barber], 103, 104, 

105, 106 
Hannah [Rawle], 113, 114, n5 
Henry, 180 
Captain Henry, 102 
Jane, 108, 113, 114, n5, 157 
Jane [Evans], 66, 100, no, in, 112, 

113, 157, 182 
Jane [Waite], 102 

John, 103, 108, 109, no, in, 181 

Margaret, 114 

Martha [Lloyd], 114 

Mary, 103, 108, 112, 113, 114, 115, 181 

Mary [ ], 102, 103 

Mary [Cooper], no 

Mary [Head]. 108, 109. no 

Mary [Holton, Emlen], 76, 109 

Mary [Richardson], 103, 105, 109, in, 

175, 180, 182 
Rachel. 181 

Rachel [Emlen], 107, 108, 109, in 
Rachel [Jory, Hunt], 108, 112, 113, 114 
Rachel [Langdale], 113, 114 
Rebecca, in 

Rebecca [Crookshanks], 108, 109, in 
Robert. 115 
Samuel. 76, 102. 103. 108, 109, in, 112, 

113, 114. 157. 181 
Sarah, no 

Sarah [Carman], 114, 115 
Sarah [Langdale], 108, 112, 113 



INDEX 



•/:> 



Susannah, io8, 113, 114, 157, 181 

Susannah [ , Morley], 102 

Susannah lOwen, Burr], 108, 109, no 

Timothy, 103, in 

WilHam, 66, 93, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 
106, 107, 108, 109, no. III, 112, 113, 
114, 115, 157, 175, 180, 181, 182 
Hughes, Mary Harriet [Calvert], 31, 36 
Hume or Home, Mary [Steuart], 30 
Humphreys, Rev. Mr., 19 

William, 229 
Humphries, James, 246 > 

Joshua, 64, 112 
Hungerford, Sarah Eleanor [Calvert], 30, 

35 
Hunt, John, 114 

Kate [Upsher], 39 
Laura [Calvert], 37 
Rachel [Hudson, Jory], 108, 112, 113, 

114 
Thomas, 90 
William H., 39 
Hunter, Caroline Stuart Holliday, 46 

Edmund Pendleton, 46 

Julia Calvert [Kennedy], 45 

Margaret [Stuart], 37, 45 

Martha Forrest [Campbell], 45 

Captain Peter, 224 

Richard Stuart, 46 

Robert W., 37, 45 
Hurford, Hannah, 157 
Huse, Sarah Stuart [Calvert, Hines], 35 

Thomas H., 35 
Hutcheson, George, 105 

Thomas, 65 
Hutchison, R., 167 
Hutton, Thomas, 112 
Huyghe, Anne [van Nierop], 214 
Hyde, Eleanor [Lyle], 140, 141 

Jane [Calvert], 19, 20 

John, 19, 20, 24, 25 

Mary [Aderne], 140 

Robert, 50 

Samuel, 23, 24, 25, 27, 140 
Hynson, Anna Francina [Vanderspeyden, 
Shippen], 190, I94 

Colonel, 190 

Janie, 136 

John, 136 

Mary [ ], 136 

Thomas, 135 

Indehaven, Herman, 184 
Ingelo, Richard, 235 



Ingersoll, Charles, 142 

Joseph R., 98 

Joseph Reed, 130 
Inglis, John, 192 

Rev. Mr., 249 

Jack, C. I., 167 

Jackson, Anne Triplett [Harrison], 132 
George S., 132 
Nicholas, 74 
Rebecca, 192 

Stephen, 93 
Jacques, Lancelot, 28 
Jacob, James, 181 
Jacobs, Henry, 63 

Jeanne [Coenens], 196 
James, Abel, 154 

Esther [Wilcox, Shippen], 186, 188, 
189, 190, 191, 194 

Philip, 188, 189, 190 

Thomas, 148 
Janney, Thomas, 235 
Jansen, Janssen, Sir Abraham, 20 

Mary [Calvert], 18, 19, 20, 21 

Sir Theodore, 20 

Williamza [Henley], 20 
Jekyl, Margaret, 245 
Jekyll, John, 190, 194 

Sir Joseph, 190 

Margaret [Shippen], 190, 194 
Jenings, Mr., 25 
Jenkins, Francis, 234 
Jennings, Ariana [ ], 19 

Edmund, 19, 20, 23, 25 

Edward, 19 

Peter, 19 
Jenny, Rev. Dr., 248 
Johnson, Abby Willing [Smith], 165 

Abigail Willing [Morris], 163, 164, 
165, 250 

Achsah Dorsey, 165 

Ann, 164 

Ann Morris, 164, 165 

Ann [Paul], 165 

Anne Elizabeth, 165 

Anne M. [Gilmer], 165 

Anthony, 164. 165 

Anthony Morris, 165, 168 

Aurora Boys [Meredith], 165 

Charles Willing, 165, 166 

Davis. 132 

Edward Carrington, 165 

Emma [Hansel], 166 

George Morris, 165 



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INDEX 



General Henry, 69 

Henry Allen, 98 

Jane Uohiisoii], 165 

Josephine [Dorsey], 165 

Justus, 163, 164, 165 

Lawrence, 172 

Lawrence Edward, 172 

Luke Morris, 165 

Madeline IMahan], 132 

Mary [Winder], 172 

Mary Lane [Hobson], 165 

Mary Potts ICatnpbell], 45 

Mary Woolsey [Freeman J, 132 

Morris Winder, 172 

Rebecca [Franks], 69, 70, 256 

R. D., 168 

Reuben Dorsey, 165 

Mrs. Reverdy, 41 

Robert Winder, i, 8, 24, 31, 46, 48, 54, 
55, 58, 62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 77, 99. 100, 
loi, 115, 133, 134, 139, 142, 148, 172. 
174, 182, 185, 195. 215, 217, 229, 239, 

254 

Rosalie Eugenia, 172 

Rosalie [Morris], i, 8, 46, 48, 54, 55, 58, 
62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 77, 99, 100, loi, 115. 
133, 134. 139, 142, 148. 172, 174. 182. 
185, 195- 215, 217, 229, 239, 254 

Sarah [Keen], 165 

Sarah [Rubicam], 165 

Susan E., 164 

Susan Elizabeth [Fallon], 165 

Thomas, Jr., 27 

Thomas Morris, 165 
Johnston, Ann [Bernard], 51 

David, 94 

General Joe, 51 

Mary [Allen], 94 

Judge Peter, 51 
Jones, Aquila, 156 

Dr. E. Lee Jones, 37 

Elizabeth [Hudson], 108, 109, no 

Griflfith, 179, 180 

John, 77, 108, no, 181 

Julia Calvert [Stuart], 37 

Julian Stuart, 37 

Mary [Morris], 149, 151, 152 

Owen, 154, 158 

Rebecca, 115 

Robert, 179 

William, 60 

Zayde Ethel [Pope], 37 
Jongerycx, Laurence [van Eelen], 214 
Jory; John, 114 



Rachel, 157 

Rachel [Hudson, Hunt], 108, n2, 113, 

114 
Judkins. Roberta Lee [Calvert], 35 
T. C, 35 

Kattur, Captain Alexander, 61, 62, 225 

Kay, John, 112 

Kearney, Elizabeth [Morris], 156 

Mary [Ship pen], 192, 194 

Richard. 35 

Rosa [Calvert], 35 
Kearsley, Doctor, 80 
Keen, Lucy Ann [Kuhn], 120 
Keen, Sarah [Johnson], 165 
Keith, George, 177, 178 

Sir William, 80 
Kelley, George, 61 
Kendall, Ann [Custis], 7 
Kennedy, Julia Calvert [Hunter], 45 

Margaret Stuart, 45 

Robert MacMillan, 45 
Kennon, Commodore Beverley, 33, 39 

Brittania Wellington [Peter], 33, 39 

Martha Custis [Peter], 39 
Keppele, Anna Catharina [Bauer], 120 

Elizabeth [Ktihn], 120 

John Henry, 120 
Kerner, Hans George, 118 
Ketchum, Catherine [Corse], 132 
Key, Francis Scott, 42 

Maria Lloyd [Steele], 42 
Kinsey, John, 109 

Mr., 92 
Kintzing, Abraham, 107, 108 
Kipshaven, John, 237 
Kirby, Nannie [Steuart], 41 
Kite, Nathan, 106 
Knight, Howard, 237 
Kohnen (See Kuhn) 
Kollock, Jacob, 221, 222, 228 

Sheppard, 222 
Konig, Mr., 125 
Kopel, Johannes, 156 
Kortright Elizabeth [Yard, Yard], 128 

Margaret [Willing], 248, 249 
Kown (See Kuhn) 

Kuhn, Dr. Adam, lOi, 119, 120, 121, 122, 
124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 185 

Adam Simon, n6, 117, n8, 119, 120, 
121, 122, 123, 184, 185 

Anna Maria, 117, 118 
Anna Maria Sabina [Schrack], 118, 
119, 120, 121, 184, 185 



INDEX 



^75 



Anna Rosina, ii6, Ii8 

Anne [Storm], 120 

Barbara [Ponmes], 116, 117 

Catherine S., 120 

Charles, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132 

C. Hartman, 128, 133 

Christopher, 117 

Cornelius, 128 

Cornelius Hartman, 131 

Daniel, 120, 126 

Edward, 129 

Eliza [Green], 120 

Elizabeth, 128, 130 

Elizabeth [Hartman, Markoe], loi. 

120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 129, 185 
Elizabeth [Keppele], 120 
Elizabeth [Morris], i, 8, 46, 48, 54, 55, 

58, 62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 77, 99, 100, lOi, 

115, 129, 130, 133- 134, 139, 142, 148. 
168, 169, 171, 172, 174, 182, 185, 195, 
215, 217, 229, 239, 254 

Elizabeth Ella, 131 

Elizabeth Hester [Yard], 128, 131, 132 

Ellen, 131 

Ellen [Evans], 129, 130, 131, 132 

Ellen [Lyle], 8, 58, 62, 70, 71, 97, 98, 
99, loi, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 139, 
142, 148, 171, 174, 185, 217, 229, 239 

Emily [Harrison], 129, 132 

Eva Barbara, 117, 118 

Eve [Swope], 121 

Frederick, 117, 120, 121, 127, 131 

George Keppele, 120 

George Lawrence, 120 

George Martin, 116, 117 

Grace Morris [Gary], 130 

Hamilton, 98, 130 

Hannah, 121 

Hans, 117 

Hans Christof, 117 

Hartman, 8, 58, 62, 70, 71. 97, 99- loi, 

116, 128. 129, 130, 131, 134. 139, 142, 
148, 169, 171, 174, 185. 217, 229, 239 

James Hamilton, 129, 130 

Johan Adam Simon, 184 

Johann Frederich (See Frederick) 

John, 116, 117, 120, 121, 127 

John Adam Simon(See Adam Simon) 

John Christopher, 116. 117, 118, 119, 256 

John George, 117 

John Jacob, i2t. 127 

John Lardner, uo 

Louisa Catherine [Adams], 130 

Lucv Ann [Keen], 120 



Margaret [Reichss], 116, 117, 118, 119, 

256 
Margareta [Fuchs], 117, 256 
Maria, 120, 121 

Maria (See Anna Maria Sabina) 
Maria Catharina, 117, 118 
Maria Elizabet, 117 
Maria Magdalena, 118 
Maria Margaretha, 118 
Maria Sabina [Ross], 121 
Mary [Kuhn], 98, 129, 131 
Mary Denckla [Mason], 131 
Mary Hamilton [Gordon], 131 
Mary Hamilton [Harris], 98, 131 
Peter, 120, 121, 127 
Rosalie, 130 
Sarah, 120 
Sarah [Bethel], 120 
Sophia, 129, 130 

Susannah [ ], 120 

William, 129, 131 
Kuntz, George, 119 

Lake, Sir Thomas, 10 
Lalaing, Countess, 208, 209 
Lambert, Frances [Moore], 145, 146 

John, 136 

Joseph, 136, 138 
Land, Mr., 138 

Lane, Ann [Richardson, Cartlidge], 180, 
181, 182 

Anne, 181 

Edward, 180, 181, 182 

Eleanor. 181 

Elizabeth, 181 

James, 181 

Mark, 69 

Samuel, 181, 184, 185 

William, 181 
Langdalc. Alice [Coates]. 114 

Elizabeth [Baldcrston], 114 

Jane [Parke], 114. 115 

John, 107, 108, 113. 114 

Josiah, 113 

Margaret, 114 

Rachel, 113 

Samuel, 114, nS 

Sarah [Hudson], loS. 112, 113 

William, 114 

William Hudson, 114 
Langhorne, Jeremiah, 83, 95 
Langstaffe. Sarah, 104 
Lardner. Lynford, 228 
Lasenby, Madam Margaret, 47 



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INDEX 



Latimer, Caroline W., 168 

Randolph B., 168 
Laurence, Eliza, 98 
Law Bernard, 43 

Bishop, of Carlisle, 32 

Edward, 43 

Eliza [Rogers], 32 

Eliza Parke [Custis], 29, ^2, 33 

Ernest, 43 

Mary, 43 

Rosalie Eugenia [Carter], 43 

Rosalie Eugenia Carter, 43 

Sarah [Williams] , 39 

Thomas, 29, 32 
Lawrence, Eliza, 98 

Elizabeth [Allen], 94 

Elizabeth [Francis], 94 

John, 94 

Joshua, 151 

Theodosia, 19 

Thomas, 192, 193 
Lea, Cassandra [Till], 218, 219 

Joseph, 218, 219 
Leach, [Stenart], 41 

F. Willing, 50 

Mr., 136 
Leatherbury, [Gale], 93 

Bridget [ ], 93 

Le Candele, Antoinette [Raes], 205 

Catherine [de Coninck], 202, 205 

Catherine [Vincque], 205, 215 

Elizabeth [Schrynmaeckers], 205, 212 

Louis, 205, 212, 215 
Lechford, Sir Richard, 15. 16 
Lechm'ere, Mr., 187 
Lee, Anne Carter, 39 

Lady Charlotte [Calvert], 18 

Colonel, 95 

Edward Henry, ist Earl of Litchfield, 
i« 

Eleanor Agnes, 39 

George Washington Custis. 39 

Mary Custis, 39 

Mary Randolph [Custis], 33. 39 

Mildred C, 39 

General Robert E., 33, 39, 41 

Robert E., 39 

William H. Fitzhugh, 39 
Leeds, Daniel, 63 

Rev. George, D.D., 172 
Lemmens, Catherine [de Cock], 206 

Elizabeth [Pceters], 206, 207 

Jacques, 206 
Lemmon, Susan [Littell], 170 



Lemon, Mary, 25 
Leopold, Anna Maria, 118 

Casper, 118 

George, 118 

John George, 118 
Lettsom, Dr. John Coakley, 127 
Levis, Elizabeth, 65 
Levy, Benjamin, 134 

Bilhah Abigail [Franks], 67, 68, 134 

Isaac, 134 

Moses, 67, 134 

Rachel [Seixas], 134 
Lewis, Agnes, 33 

Angela [Conrad], 33 

Eleanor Parke [Butler], 33 

Eleanor Parke [Custis], 29, 33 

Elizabeth [Morris, Dury], 150, 151 

Esther Maria [Coxe], 33 

Lawrence, 29, 33 

Lorenzo, 33 

Mr., 95 

Samuel, 151 
Leyborn, Mr., 224 
Leyes, James, 237 
Lightfoot, Michael 158 
Lillingston, Carpender, 135, 136, 137, 138, 
219 

Elizabeth [Watson], 71, 137, 138, 217, 
219, 238, 239 

Frances [ ], 136, 137 

George, 71, I35- 136, I37. 138, 139, 217, 
219, 238, 239 

Jane [Hammond], 135, 136, 137 

Rev. John, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 216, 
217 

Maria or Mary [Tilghman, Ward], 
135, 137, 216, 217 

Mary, 136, 137 

Mary [Carpender], 135, 137, 216 

Mary [Till], 71, 95, 96, 136, 138, I39, 
174, 216, 217, 219, 220, 227, 229, 238, 

239 

Susannah [ ], 137 

Lilly, Dr. Henry Walter, 45 

Hester Virginia [Calvert], 45 
Linnaeus, (Carl von Linne), 122 
Lippincott, Samuel. 66, 112 
Litchfield, Earl of, 18 
Littell, Charles Willing, 170 

Mrs. Charles Willing, 252 

Eliza Lemmon, 170 

Elton Gardiner, 170 

Harriet Hare, 170 

Helen Arcadia, 170 






INDEX 



77 



Helen Arcadia [Harrington], 170 

John Stockton, 163, 164, 165, 168, 169, 
170 

Margaret Morris, 170 

Mary Morris, 170 

Samuel Harrington, 170 

Stephen, 169 

Susan [Gardiner], i6g 

Susan [Lemmon], 170 

Susan Morris, 170 

Susan Sophia [Morris], 163, 164, 169, 
170 

Thomas Gardiner, D.D., 170 
Little, John S.. 168 
Littleton, Leah [Gale], 7 

Mary [Brown, Custisl, 5, 6, 7 

Southey, 7 
Liversage, Apolys [Lotde], 242 

Robert, 242 
Lloyd, Anna Maria ITilghman], 216 

David, 59, 86, 144, 179 

Grace, 160 

Margaret [JVard], 216, 219 

Martha [Hudson], 114 

Colonel Philemon, 216 

Rees, 114 

Sara, 218 

Thomas, 176, 177, 178, 235 
Logan, Mrs. Deborah, 102, 103 

James, 59, 84, 148, 158, 179, 188, 191, 
192, 193, 236, 237 

Sarah, 158 

William. 68, 158, 228 
Loller, Andrew, 109 
Losson, Marie [van Eelen], 214 
Louvrex, Mr., 197 
Love, Lydia, 115 
Lovelace, Colonel Francis, 219 
Lowdon, Hugh, 181 
Lowe, Anna Margaret [ ], 117 

Charles, 19, 20, 47 

Jane [Sewall, Calvert], 17 

John Adam, 117 

Nicholas, 17 

Vincent, 17 
Lowell, Percival, 242 
Lowle, [Barkerville], 241 

[Hasdrigg], 241 

[Lyttleton], 241 

[Mayhouse], 242 

[Percival], 242 

[Turner], 241, 242 

[Wake], 242 

Andrew, 241, 242 



Anthony, 241 

Apolys [Liversage], 242 

Ava [IVilling], 240, 241, 242 

Edniond, 242 

Edward, 241 

Francis, 242 

George, 241 

James, 241, 242 

Joan [Russell], 241 

Joane [Gage], 242 

John, 242 

Margaret [Dyer], 242 

Martha, 242 

Martha [Smith], 242 

Mary, 242 

Mary [Hubbell], 242 

Percival (See Lowell) 

Prudence [Whyke], 242 

Raffe, 241, 242 

Richard, 241, 242 

Roger, 242 

Sabity, 241 

Samuel, 241 

Thomas, 240, 241, 242 

Walter, 241 

William, 241, 242 
Lunden, Catherine [BosschaertJ, 200, 206 

Catherine [van Solt], 206 

Helene Franqoise [Rubens], 206, 211 

Jean Baptiste, 206, 211 

Jeanne Catherine [de Brialmont], 202, 
206 

Melchior, 200, 206 
Lutz, Mary Ann, 164 
Lybrand, Elizabeth [Shippen], 186, 187, 

190, 191, 194 
Lyle, Major Acheson, 141 

Acheson, 141 

Ann [Hamilton], 8, 58, 62, 70, 71 - 97, 
98, 99- 129, 134, 139, 141, 1+2, 148, 
174, 217, 229, 239 

Anne [ ], 140 

Annie [Ould], 140 

Catharine [BatesonI, 141 

David, 140 

Rev. Edward, 140 

Eleanor [Bankhead], 140 

Eleanor [Hyde], 140. 141 

Eleanor [Warrel. 141 

Eleanor Augusta K. A. [Hervey, Rath- 
bone], 141 

Eleanor Ida, 141 

Elizabeth [Carmichael], 140 

Elizabeth [Ovens], 140 



278 



INDEX 



Ellen, 141 

Ellen [Kuhn], 8, 58, 62, 70, 71, 97, 
98, 99, loi, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134* 
139, 142, 148, 171, 174, 185, 217, 229, 

239 

Ellen [Markland, Entwistle], 140 

Ellen [Martin], 140 

Ellen [Scott], 140 

Esther [Acheson], 141 

Esther Emily A. [Rathbone], 141 

Fanny [Mulholland] (Lady Dunleath), 
140 

Felton Hervey, 141 

Florence A. [Galbraith], 141 

Francis Acheson, 141 

George, 140 

Georgina A. [Cox], 141 

Godfrey Octavius, 140 

Harriet [Chichester]. 140 

Harriet [Cromie], 140 

Henry, 140 

Hugh, 140, 141 

Hugh Chetham, 141 

Ida Elizabeth [Ruttledge], 141 

James, 8, 58, 62, 70, 71, 96, 97, 98, 99, 
129, 134, 139, 141, 142, 148, 174. 217, 
229, 239 

James A., 140 

James Acheson, 141 

Rev. John, 140 

Margaret, 141 

Margaret [Stevenson], 141 

Martha [Bryan], 140 

Mary, 141 

Mary [Beckett], 98, 130, 142 

Mary [Graydon], 140 

Mary [Sandys], 141 

Samuel, 140 

Sarah [Acheson], 141 

Sarah [Batt], 141 

Sarah [Greg], 140 

Sarah [Price], 140 

Sarah [Smyth], 140 

Thomas, 140 
Lyndhurst, Baron, 142 

Lord Chancellor, 85 
"Lynn, Fanny [Webster], 34, 40 
Lyon, Emily Kuhn [Harrison], 133 

S. H., 133 
Lyttleton, [Lowle], 241 

McCall, Ann [ ], 249 

Ann [Willing], 247, 249, 250 
Nancy (See Ann) 



Samuel, 249 
McClagham, Captain John, 227 
McComb, John, 178 
McCormick, Rev. Mr., 32 
McFee, Anna Goldthwaite [Campbell], 45 

Charles W., 45 
McKean, Governor, 193 
McLonen, Daniel, 227 
McManus, J. H., 98 

McMullin, , 38 

Jane [Peter], 38 
McMurphy, Robert, 229 
McWilliam, Richard, 221 
McWilliams, Rose [Budd, Plumley, Ship- 
pen], 190, 191, 192 
Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor, 84 
Maccuen, Malcolm, 131 
Macdougall, Captain, 83 
Mackubin, Eleanor [Calvert], 37, 45 
Ella, 38 

Emily Boyce, 38 
Gabriella [Peter], 38 
George, 38 
James, 38 

Maud Tayloe [Perrin], 38 
Mildred Lee, 38 
Parke Custis, 38 
Macquereel, Anne [Walewyns], 206, 215 
Anne Marie [de Coninck], 202, 206 
Franqois, 206, 215 
Maria or Marie [de Brialmont], 201, 

206 
Marie [Godevaerts], 206 
Magruder, Cecilius Calvert, 41 
Daniel Randall, 40, 41 
Eugene Webster, 41 
Rosalie Eugenia [Stuart], 27 
Rosalie Eugenia Stuart [Webster], 

40 
Rosalie Stuart, 41 
Mahan, Captain Alfred Thayer, 132 
Dennis Hart, 132 
Ellen Kuhn, 132 
Ellen Lyle [Evans], 132 
Helen Evans, 132 
Lyle Evans, 132 
Madeline [Johnson], 132 
Mary Helena [Okill], 132 
Mahoney, Margaret Agnes [Calvert], Z^ 
Malcolm, Rev. Mr., 29 
Mame, Thomas, 60 

Mannetti, Lucrece [Hellemans], 204, 205 
Mansfield, Lord (Mr. Murray), 83, 84 



INDEX 



279 



Markland, Ellen [Lyle, Entwistlc], 140 

John, 140 
Marklin, Mr., 138 
Markoe, Abram, 121 

Elizabeth [ ], 121 

Elizabeth [Boynton], 121 

Elizabeth [Crequi], 121 

Elizabeth [Hartman, Knhn], loi, 120, 

121, 122, 127, 128, 129, 185 
Elizabeth [Prom], 122 
Elizabeth Kenny [Rogers], 121 
Francis, loi, 121, 122 
Francis H., loi 
Isaac, 121 
James, 121 
John, 121 

Margaret [Bache, Duane], 122 
Mary, 121 

Mary Aletta [Heyliger], 122 
Peter, 121, 122 
Sarah [Caldwell], 122 
Marriate, Joseph, 105 
Marriool, Mary, 112 
Marshall, Benjamin, 152 
Elizabeth [Guest], 76 
Hannah [Decow], 104 
James, 76, 103, 104, 105 
Rachel [Garthwaite], 76, 104 

Rachell [ ], 103 

Thomas, 72 
Martin, D., 246 

Ellen [Lyle], 140 
John, 107 
John Hill, 59, 95 
Major, 140 
Sarah H. [Morris], 37 
Mason, Mary Denckla [Kuhn], 131 
Richard, 114, 227 
William, 15 
Masquele, Marie [dc Brialmont], 201 
Masters, John, 55 
Mathew, Tobie, 15 
Matlack, Joseph, 112 
Timothy, 112 
William, 112 
Mattingly, Will, 23 
Maurice, Theodore, 222 

Thomas, 227 
May, Mary, 60 
Mayes, John, 161 

Mayhouse, [Lowle], 242 

Mayne, Simon, 241 
Mayo, Ann, 53 

Anne [Carrington], 5i> 52, 53 



Joseph, 49, 51 
Major William, 52 
William, 49 
Meade, Bishop William, 4 
Medcalf, Hannah, iii 

Hannah [Hudson], 109, iii 
Jacob, III 
Mary, iii 

Matthew, 105, 107, in 
Rachel [Wharton], 107, in 
Sarah, in 

Susanna [Wharton], 107. ni 
William, 107, in 
Melchior, Leonard, 157 
Mellowes, Ann [Falkingham], 54 
Benjamin, 53 
Benjamin, Jr., 54 
Mary, 54 

Mary [Carrington], 51, 53, 54 
Mercer, Ella H. [Peter], 38 
Meredith, Aurora Boys [Johnson], 165 

John, 52 
Merry, Walter, 104 
Messard, Captain Stephen, 159 
Mickle, Hannah [Morris], 156 

Samuel, 239 
Middleton, Elizabeth, 104 
Miers, Elizabeth, 135 
Mifflin, Edward, 7, 8 

Jonathan, 224 
Miller, Peter, 113, 161, 162 
Milward, Ann, 52 

Mary, S3 
Mitchell, Clara Cecilia [Calvert], 36 

Judge D. F., 36 
Moens, Anne Marie [van den Graef], 207, 
213 
Constance [Bonanomil, 207 
Henri, 207 
Molleston, Alexander, 233 
Monkton, Samuel, 144 

Susanna [ 1. I44 

Monson, Mrs., 124 

Montell, Alice Key [Steuart], 42 

John Bartow, 42 
Moode, Alexander, no 

Hannah [Cockficldl, 107. 109. no, m 
William, 105, 107, 109, HO 
Moon, Dr., 153 
Moore, Ann, 152 
Anne, I45, H^ 
Charles, I45, 146, 148 
Daniel, I44, MS. 146 
Frances, 146 



280 



INDEX 



Frances [Bayard], 145, 146 

Frances [Lambert], 145, 146 

Sir Francis, 144 

James, 144 

Sir John, 144 

John, 59, 61, 144, 145, 146. 148, 236 

Lambert, 145, 146 

Major, 99 

Mary [Evans], 59, 61, 62, 68, 144, 14S, 

148 
Rebecca, 144, 145, 146, i54 

Rebecca [ ], 59, I44, I4S 

Rebecca [Evans], 59, I44, I45. 148 
Rebecca [Smith], 147 
Richard, 145, 146, 148 
Somerset, 148 
Stephen, 145, 146 
Susanna, 144, 145, 146 
Thomas, 144, 145, 146 
William, 144, 145, 146, 147 
William, Jr., 62 

Williamina [ 1, 147 

Mordaunt (See Mordent) 
Mordent, Osmond, 148 
Thomas, 148 
William, 148 
More, Elizabeth [Grosse], 73 
Morgan, Alice [Carter], 43 
Elizabeth, 159 
Thomas, 233 

Morley, Susannah [ , Hudson], 102 

Morris, Abigail Willing [Johnson], 163, 

164, 165, 250 

Agnes [ , Bom], 149 

Ann [Willing], i, 54, 55, 66, 73- 77, 

100, 115, 162, 163, 165, 166, 169, 182, 

195, 250, 252, 253, 254 
Ann Willing, 163, 164 
Anna Maria [Murray], 164, 168, 169, 

170 
Anthony, i, 7, 55- 66, 76, 77, 95. 100 

114, 115, 149, 150, 151, 152. 153. 154, 

155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163. 

178, 181, 182, 236, 250 
Benjamin, 156, 157 
Caroline Calvert [Cheston], 172 
Caroline Maria, 169 
Caroline Maria [Calvert], i, 32, 46, 

48, 54, 55- 66, 73, 77, 100, 115, 163, 

166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 182, 195, 215, 

254 
Carrington, 169 
Deborah, 154, 155, 156, 157 
Deborah [Franklin], 160. 161, 162 



Elizabeth, 157, 162, 163 

Elizabeth [Hudson], i, 55, 66, 77, 100, 
112, 113, 114, IIS, 156, 157, 158, i6q, 
162, 163, 181, 182, 250 

Elizabeth [Kearney], 156 

Elizabeth [Kuhn], i, 8, 46, 48, 54, 55, 
58, 62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 77, 99, 100, loi, 
115, 129, 130, 133, 134, 139, 142, 148, 
168 169, 171, 172, 174, 182, 185, 195, 
215, 217, 229, 239, 254 

Elizabeth [Lewis, Dury], 150, 151 

Elizabeth [Senior], 149 

Elizabeth [Shoemaker], 154, 155, 156 

157 

Elizabeth [Watson], 149, 150, 151, 152, 
236 

Elizabeth, Mary Eliza, or Eliza [Weid- 
rnan], 163 

Elizabeth Carrington, 163, 164 

Ellen Lyle [Camblos], 172 

Eugene Carrington, 169 

Eugenia [Cheston], 172, 173 

George C, 165 

George Calvert, i, 8, 46, 48, 54, 55, 58, 
62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 77, 99, 100, loi, 115, 
129, 130, 133, 134, 139, 142, 148, 154. 
167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 182, 
185, 195, 215, 217, 229, 239, 254 

Gouverneur, 83 

Hannah, 150. 151, 155 

Hannah [Cadwalader], 155, 156 

Hannah [Mickle], 156 

Hartman Kuhn, 172 

Henry Thomas, 169 

Isaac, 150, 151, 155, 162 

Israel, 150, 151, 160, 162 

James, 150, 151, 154, 155, 156 

Jeremiah, 162 

John, 151, 154, 155, 156. 157 

John G., D.D., 9 

John T., 152 

Joseph. 151, 154, 155, 156, 157 

Julia, 172 

Julia Meta, 167, 168, 169, 170 

Luke, I, 54, 55, 66, 73, 77, 100, 114, 
IIS, ISO, 151, 15s. 160, 161, 162, 163, 
164, 165, 166,. 169, 182. 19s, 250, 252, 

253. 254 
Margaret [Cook], 151 
Margaret, or Margaretta, Hare, 163, 

164, 168 
Martha, 157 

Martha [Fitzwater], 156 
Mary, 151, i54, I55, 156, i57 



INDEX 



281 



Mary [Allen, Richards], 151 

Mary [Harrison], 162 

Mary [Howard. Coddington], 149, 150, 

151, 152 
Mary [Jones], 149, 151, 152 
Mary [Powd], 156 
Mary [Saunders], 162 
Mary [Sutton], 156 
Mary Eliza, or Elizabeth [IVeidman], 

163 
Matilda [Billington], 163 
Phebe, 156, 157 
Phebe [Guest], i, 55, 76, 77, 151, 152, 

IS4, 156, 157 
Pierre, 172 

Rebecca [Cadwalader], 151 
Rebecca [Wistar], 162 
Robert, 247 

Governor Robert Hunter, no 
Robert Hunter, 222 
Rosalie Eugenia, 167, 168, 169 
Rosalie Uohnsoni, i, 8, 46, 48, 54, 55, 
58, 62, 66, 70, 71, 73, 77, 99, 100, loi. 
115, I33> 134, 139, 142, 148, 172, 174, 
182, 185, 195, 215, 217, 229, 239, 254 
Samuel, 151, 154, I55, 156, i57, 160, 162 
Samuel B., 164, 168 
Sarah, 114, 150, 151, 156, iS7 
Sarah [Billington], 162 
Sarah [Buckley], 161, 162 
Sarah [Dury], 151 
Sarah [Powel], 156, 157, 162 
Sarah [Warder], 162 
Susan, 114, 115 
Susan Sophia [Littcll], 163, 164, 169, 

170 
Susanna, 151, 156 
T., 167 

Thomas, 161, 162 

Thomas Willing, i, 32. 46, 48, 54, 55. 

66, 73, 77- 100, IIS, 163, 164, 165, 166, 

167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 182, 195, 215, 

252, 254 

Warder, 162, 163 

William, 114, 150, 151, 154- 155- 156, 

157, 160, 161, 162 
William Hudson, 160 
Mountford, Benjamin, 72 
Muhlenberg, Rev. Mr., 184 
Muhlhanin, Elizabeth [Schrack], 185 
Mulholland, Fanny [Lyle] (Lady Dun- 

leath), 140 
Milliken. Sophia O. ICalvcrt], 31 
Murchison, Jessie [Carter], 44 



Murphey, Captain James, 216 

Mabel [IVard], 216 
Murphy, Isabel [Stcuart], 41 
Murray, Anna Maria [Morris], 164, 168, 
169, 170 

Anna Willing, 171 

Augusta Eccleston, 171 

Calvert, 171 

Charlotte [Radcliffe], 42 

Daniel, 170 

Daniel Maynadier, 171 

Edward, 171 

Edward Morris, 171 

Eleanor Vinton [Clark], 170 

Francis Key, 168, 169, 170. 171 

Hannah Margaret M a y n a d i e r 
[Steuarf], 35, 42 

James, 42 

Julia Morris [Bowdoiu], 171 

Mary [Dorsey], 170 

Mary Vinton, 171 

Miriam Eccleston [Shoemaker], 171 

Miriam Shoemaker, 171 

Mr. (Lord Mansfield), 83, 84 

Richard Stuart, 171 

Rosamond Willing. 171 

Samuel Shoemaker, 171 

Thomas Morris, 170 
Mynne, Anne [Calvert], 9. 10, 15 

Elizabeth [Wroth], 9 

John, 9 

Nane, Michael, 113 

Nanton, Margaret Carrol [Hartman], lOi, 
121, 122 

William, loi 
Napier, James, 145 
Nebbett, Nebbetts, Samuel, S3 
Neblett, Alice, 254 
Nelson, Charlotte [Campbell], 44 

Robert E., 44 
Newberry, Walter, 188 
Newman, John Beauclec, 98, 141, 142 
Newton, Ann [Carrington]. 49 

Captain Bryan. 231 

Cassandra [ ], I74. 218 

Cassandra [Till], 174. 218. 219 

Nicholas, 49 

Thomas, 174, 218, 219. 224 
Nichalls, Elizabeth (Sec Nickolls) 
Nicholls, Governor, 231 
Nichols, S., 130 

William. i6r 
Nickolls, Elizabeth, 63, 64 



282 



INDEX 



i 



Noble, Joseph, 155 

Katherine [Harrison}, 193 
Norris, Charlotte Augusta [Calvert], 32, 

37 

Elizabeth, 158 

Isaac, 148, 179, 188, 189, 191 

Sarah H. [Martin], 27 

William, S7 
North, Roger, 184 
Northumberland, Duke of, 18 
Nourse, Mary I., 168 

Rosa M., 168 
Nowland, John, 192 

Mary [Gray, Shippen], 192 
Nunes, Effam [Crosfeld], 186 

John, 186 

Mary [Shippeit], 186, 187 

O'Bierne, Francis, 96 

Francis Lewis, 99 

Rebecca [Hamilton], 96, 98, 99 

Thomas Lewis (Bishop of Meath), 99 
Odenheimer, Rev. W. H., 169, 172 
Oerstrup, Mary [Prom], 122 

Rev. Mr., 122 
Ogden, David, 105 

Hannah, 157 

Hannah [Barber, Hudson], 103, 104, 
105, 106 

Hannah [Owen, Wharton], 107, 108, 
no 

John, 109, no, 181, 232 

Samuel, 105 
Ogle, Mrs., 25, 29 

Samuel, 19, 21, 22, 23 
Okill, Mary Helena [Mahan], 132 
Oldman, Thomas, 234, 235 
Olive. Mary [ ], 64 

Thomas, 63, 64 
Olton, Benjamin, 54 
op den Craen, Catherine [Batkin], 199 
Ould, Annie [Lyle], 140 
Ovens, Edward, 140 

Elizabeth [Lyle], 140 

Hugh, 140 

Thomas, 140 

William, 140 
Owen, Hannah [Ogden, Wharton], 107, 108, 
no 

Mary [Burr], 107, 108, 109, no 

Rachel, 108, 109, no 

Rebecca [ ]. no 

Rebecca [Evans], 65 

Robert, no 



Susanna, 112 

Susannah [Hudson, Burr], 108, 109, 
no 

Page, John, 224 

Mr., 22;^ 
Pain, John, 63 

Mary, 181 
Painter, Samuel, Jr., 104 
Palairet, Captain, 85, 91 

Mary Ann [Hamilton], 98 

Septimus Henry, 98 
Palmer, Barbara, 18 

John, 161 
Pardon, William, 232 
Parke, Ann, 114, 115 

Jane, 114 

Jane [Langdale], 114. 115 

Sallie or Sarah, 115 

Susan, 114 

Susan H., 115 

Dr. Thomas, 96, 98, 114 
Parker, George, 108 

Gilbelsher, 228 
Parkes, Richard, 63 
Parks, Barnet, i 

Mary [Baylis], I 

Parrot, , 223 

Parrott, Richard, 219 
Parsons, William, 239 
Paschall, Mary [Say], 75, 76 
Pasco, Simon, 145 
Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 180 
Patton, Elizabeth [Camblos]. 172 
Paul, Ann [Johnson], 165 
Paynter, John, 231 

Richard, 231, 236 

Sarah [ , Watson], 231 

Pearson, Isaac, 112 

Peaseley, Anne [Calvert], 10, 15, 16 

William, 10, 15, 16 
Peell, Richard, 112 
Peeters. , 174 

Anne (Marie) Goyvaertsen [van den 
Graef], 207, 213 

Catherine [de Coninck], 202, 207 

Edouard, 207, 213 

Elizabeth [Lemmens], 206, 207 

Evrard, 207 

Jean Constantin, 202, 207 

Jean Gilles, 207, 213 

Luc, 206, 207 

Marguerite [Braem], 207 

Marie Josephe [van Eelen], 207, 214 



INDEX 



2S3 



Marie Louise IS tier], 31, 196, 198, 

199, 207 
Mathilde Frangoise [van den Cruyce], 

207, 213 
Michel, 207, 214 
Peil, Captain, 223 

Pemberton, Israel, 84, 150, 151, 158, 190 
Mary, 158 
Phineas, 235 
Rachel, i57 
Penn, Anne [Allen], 85, 94- 95 
John, 83, 85, 95, 228 
Letitia [Aubrey], 180 
Richard, 85, 122, 222, 228 
Thomas, 122, 222, 228 
William. 4. 59. 75, 79, 82, 100, 104, 144. 
148. 176. 177, 178, 179, 188, 189, 191, 
220, 232, 233 
Pennypacker, Samuel W., 147, I95 
Penrose, Thomas, 161 
Pepper, William, 129 

Percival, [Lowle], 242 

Peries, A., 130 

Adolphus, 129 
Perrin, Maud Tayloe [Mackubin], 38 

Perrine, Sadie [ , Calvert], 36 

Peter, Agnes, 39 

America Pinckney [Williams], 33, 38, 

39 

Armistead, 39 

Beverly Kennon, 39 

Britannia, 38 

Britannia Wellington [Kennon], 33, 39 

Columbia Washington, 33 

Daniel Parke, 35 

Elizabeth [Peter], 38 

Elizabeth Jane [Henderson], 33, 38 

Elizabeth Sophie [Calvert], 35 

Ella H. [Mercer], 38 

Frieland, 39 

Gabriella [Mackubin], 38 

George Washington, 33, 38 

James Henderson, 38 

Jane Boyce, 33 

Jane [Boyce], 33, 38 

Jane [McMullin], 38 

John Parke Custis, 33, 38 
Mrs. Martha, 167 
Martha [Custis], 29, 32, 33 
Martha Custis [Gibbs], 38 
Martha Custis [Kennon], 39 
Martha Custis Castania, 33 
Martha Eliza Eleanor, 33 



Martha Parke (See Martha Custis 

Peter) 
Mary, 38 
Parke, 38 
Parke Custis, 38 
Robert Thomas. 33 
Sarah Elizabeth [Slayttiaker], 38 
Thomas, 29, 32, 33, 38 
Walter Gibson, 39 
William Boyce, 38 
Peters, Rev. Richard, 247, 249. 250 

Richard, 68, 95, 96, 227, 228 
Pettly, Thomas, 234 
Philipson, Anne [Arundel]. 16 

Miles, 16 
Phillips, Francis, 59. 60 

N. Taylor, 134 
Phipps, Mr., 25 
Physic, Doctor, 122 
Piedsnoirs, Captain, 225 
Pietersen, Jean. 196 

Petronille Dirck [Hooft], 196 
Pierre, 196 
Piles, William, 220 

Pinckney, , 88 

Plater, Ann, 48 

George, 19, 48 
Plaver, Elizabeth [Willing], 240 
Pleasant, Mary, 115 
Pleasants, Captain Thomas F., 166 
Plumley, Charles, 191, 192 

Rose [Budd, McWilliams, Shipfen], 

190, 191, 192 

Sarah [Ship pen], 192, I94 
Plumsted, Thomas, 95 

William, 249 
Ponmes, Barbara [KuJin]. 116, 117 

Frederick, 116, 117 
Pope, Zayde Ethel [Jones], 37 
Pormont, Philomon, 72 
Post, Mary C. [Stuart], 33 

Rev. R., D.D., 33 

William M., M.D., 33 
Pound, Robert, 77 
Powrel, Abigail [ ], 157 

Elizabeth [Willing], 245. 246. 248 

Mary, I57 

Mary [Morris], 156 

Samuel, i55. 156. I57. I90. 248 

Sarah, i55 

Sarah [Morris], 156. I57. 162 

Powell, Elizabeth 1 ]. 164 

Marv [Calvert]. 30 



284 



INDEX 



Rudric, 232 

Thomas, 15S 
Pratt, Thomas, 63 
Preeson, Anne [Brown, Hamilton], 5, 6, 

7, 8, 58, 78, 79, 93, 95 

Brown or Browne, 6, 7 

Elizabeth [Brown], 5, 6, 7, 8 

Esther [Cable], 6 

Hannah, 6 

Joseph, 5, 6, 7, 78, 79 

Margaret [Waters], 6 

Sarah [G/t^ow], 6 

Susanna [Bozudoin], 6, 7 

Susanna [Godwin], 5 

Thomas, 5, 6, 7, 8 

Zorobabel, 5, 6 
Prentice, William, 234 
Preston, Abel, no 

Hannah [ , Hudson], no 

Samuel, 189, 190 

Thomas, 156 
Prettyman, Thomas, 228 
Price, John, 246 

Sarah [Lyle], 140 

Thomas, 221, 234 
Prom, Ann Eliza [Scheel], 122 

Elizabeth [Markoe], 122 

Mary [Oerstrup], 122 

Samuel, 122 

Sarah [Rowan], 122 
Proud, Robert, 75 
Purcell, Anne [Steuart], 41 

Mary Stevenson [Steuart], 41 

William Henry, 41 
Pyewell, William, 113 
Pypelincx, Marie [Rubens], 208, 209 

Quarry, Colonel Robert, Izi4, 178 
Quary, Sarah, 144 

Radcliffe, Charlotte [Murray], 42 
Raes, Antoinette [Le Candele], 205 
Rakestraw, Joseph, 108 
Ramge, Conrad, 118, 119 

Magdalene, 119 

Magdalina [ ], 118 

Randolph, Ada [Stuart, Robb], 38 

Elizabeth G. [Calvert], 31 

Captain William W., 38 

William Welford, 38 
Raper, Abigail, 112 

Rathbone, Eleanor Augusta K. A. [Lyle, 
Hervey], 141 

Esther Emily A. [Lyle], 141 



Samuel G., 141 

William, 141 
Rauss, Catharine [Schrack], 185 

Rev. Lucas, 185 
Rawle, Mrs. [ , Shoemaker], 127, 128 

Anna [Clifford], 127, 128 

Benjamin, 115 

Francis, 127, 179 

Hannah [Hudson], 113, 114, 115 

Rebekah [Ridgzvay], 114, 115 

Robert L., 114 

Robert Turner, 115 

William, 127, 130, 131 

William Brooke, 127 

William Hudson, 115 
Razolini, C, 23 

Mrs. Elizabeth, 22, 48 

Onorio, 22, 23, 25, 48 
Read, John, 60 

Mary, 28 
Redman, John, Sr., 76 

Mary, 98 

Mrs. Rebecca, 98 

Richard, 155 
Redmond, Captain, 225 
Reed, Adam, 119 

Daniel, 117 
Rees, Richard, 108 
Reichenbach, William, 121 
Reichss, Margaret [Kuhn], 116, 117, 118, 
119, 256 

Marx, 116, 256 
Reiner, Rachel, 150 
Reinharden, Johann, Count and Lord of 

Hanau, etc., 116, 117, 119 
Reisig, Anna Rosina [ ], 116 

Hans Simon, 116 

John Simon, 116 
Revell, Rachel [Upshur], 6 
Reynolds, Sarah, 161 
Rhoades, Samuel, 153 
Rhoads, John, 232, 233, 234 
Rice, Robert, 167 
Richards, Mary [Allen, Morris], 151 

Paul, 90 

William, 161 
Richardson, Ann [Lane, Cartlidge], 180, 
181, 182 

Aubrey, 181 

Barbara, 181 

Edward, 181 

Eleanor. 181 

Eleanor [ ], 175, 180, 182 

Elizabeth, 181 



« 



INDEX 



285 



Elizabeth [Bevan], 180, 181, 182 
Elizabeth [Bickley], 180, 182 

Elizabeth [ , PVebb], 175, 181 

Ellin, 105 

Francis, 187 

John, 108, 181 

Joseph, 105, 180, 181, 182 

Mary [Hudson], 103, 105, 109. m. i75. 

180, 182 
Rebecca, 106, 108 
Rebecca [Howard, Shippen], 186, 187, 

188, 191, 194 

Richard, 181 

Samuel. 103. 105, 109, I75. 176, i77. 

178, 179, 180, 181, 182 
William, 181 
Ridgely, Mary Buckner [Carter], 36, 43 
Ridgway, Ann (See Phebe Ann) 

Benjamin, 115 

Caroline, 115 

Jacob, 114. 115 

John Jacob, 115 

Phebe Ann [Rush], 114. ii5 

Rebecca [Rawle], 114, nS 

Susan [Roach, Barton], 114. nS 
Ried, David, 156 
Riese, John, 161 
Riever, Leonard, 118 
Kiley, George W., 132 

Louisa Haxall [Harrison], 132 
Ring, Samuel, iS5 
Ritchards, William, 161 
Roach, Susan [Ridgway, Barton], 114, ii5 

Thomas, 115 
Roades, John, 221, 235 
Roads, John, 150 
Robb. Ada [Stuart, Randolph], 38 

Robert L., 38 
Robenson, Thomas, 228 
Roberts, Alice [Bowie], 42 

Alice Maud, 42 

Alice Oden, 43 

Annette Carter [Bowie], 43 

Clarence Meredith, 42 

Eugene, 43 

Eugene Bowie. 43 

Grace Rogers, 43 

John, 179 

Joseph William, 43 

Josephine, 42 

Maynard, 42 

Oden Bowie, 42 

Olife, 103 

S. Owen W., 42 



Thomas, 145 
Robertson, Peter, 60, 61 

Rebecca [Evans, Barclay], 61 
Robins, Esther [Denwood], 57 

John, 57 
Robinson, Anne, 106 

Anne Calvert [Stuart], 30 

Edward, 93 

Joseph, 146 

Septimus, 93 

William, 30 
Rochford, Dennis, 103 

Elizabeth [Hudson], 103 

Solomon. 158 
Rockclifif, Morton, 225. 226 
Rogers, Eliza [Law], 32 

Elizabeth Kenny [Markoc], 121 

Lloyd Nicholas, 32 

Thomas, 108 
Rose, Henry, 55 
Rose or Ross 

Rebecca [Baylis], i 

Thomas, i 
Rosenbach. Dr. A. S. W., 69 

H. P., 68 
Ross, Colonel George J., 120 

Gertrude [Till], 229 

J., 19 

James, 121 

John, 161 

Maria Sabina [Kuhn], 121 

Mary, 121 
Ross (See Rose) 
Rousby, Collector, 23 
Rowan, Major, 122 

Sarah [Prom], 122 
Rubens, Albert, 210 

Constance [Helman], 205. 211 

Helena [Fourment], 210 

Helene FranQoise [Lundcn], 206, 211 

Isabelle [Brandt], 200, 209. 211 

John, 208, 210 

Marie [Pypelincx], 208. 209 

Nicholas, 205, 210, 211 

Peter Paul, 208, 209. 210. 211 

Philip, 209, 210. 211 

Pierre Paul, 200 
Rubicam, Sarah [Johnson], 165 
Ruchin (See Reichss) 
Rush, Dr. James, 115 

Julia Stockton [Calvert], 31. 35. 30 

Phebe Ann [Ridgway). 114. ii5 
Russel, Lady Rachel, 21 



286 



INDEX 



Russell, Joan [Lozvlc], 241 

Philip, 138, 220, 221, 234, 23s, 236, 237 

Phillips, 236 

Sarah, 236 
Ruttledge, Ida Elizabeth [Lylc], 141 
Ryser, Brigite [van Schorel], 211 

Henry, 211 
Rysers, Catherine [Stier], 196, 211 

Sancroft, Dr. William, 194 
Sandham, Matthias, 94 
Sandys, Henry Cole, 141 

Mary [Lyle], 141 
Saunders, Mary [Morris], 162 
Savage, Thomas, 188 
Say, Hannah, 75 

Mary [Guest], 75 

Mary [Paschall], 75, 76 

William, 75, 76 
Scarborough. Colonel Edmund, 6 

Susanna [Upshur, Teackle], 6, 7 
Scheel, Ann Eliza [Prom], 122 

Herr, 122 
Schilder, Adrien, 211, 212 

Elizabeth [van Dueren], 211, 212 

Frangois, 212, 214 

Henri Frangois, 200, 212 

Marie Mathilde [dc Coninck], 202, 212 

Mathilde Gerbrants [van Nierop], 
212, 214 

Sybille [Bosschaert], 200, 212 
Schrack, Anna Maria Sabina (Mary) 
[Kiihn], 118, 119, 120, 121, 184, 185 

Catharine [Rmiss], 185 

Christian, 185 

Elizabeth, 121, 185 

Elizabeth [Muhlhanin], 185 

Euphrosina (See Eva Rosina) 

Eva Barbara [Crosman], 184, 185 

Eva Rosina [ ], 119, 184, 185 

Johann Jacob, 185 

Johann (or John) Nicholas, 185 

Johannes Joseph, (See John) 

John, 121, 184. 185 

John Jacob, 119, 184, 185 

Maria [ ], 184 

Mary (See Anna Maria Sabina) 

Philip, 184, 185 
Schrynmaeckers, Elizabeth [Le Candele], 

205, 213 

Jean, 212 

Sara [Govaerts], 212 
Schultz, Pastor, 119 
Scott, Charles, 145 



Ellen [Lyle], 140 

E. S., 167 

George, 106 

John, 175 

General Winfield, 69 
Scrope, Duke of Bridgewater, 21 
Seager, Captain, 222 
Seaward, Malachy, 53 
Seelingmann, Maria, 118 

Philipp, 118 
Seixas, Gershom, 68 

Isaac Mendez, 134 

Rachel [Levy], 134 
Selden, Samuel, 50 
Seller, Christopher, 161 
Senior, Elizabeth [Morris], 149 
Sewall, Henry, 17 

Jane [Lowe, Calvert], 17 

Major Nicholas, 17 
Seybolt, Frances [Calvert], ^7, 45 
Shaffer, Cas., 121 
Shakle, Thomas, 112 
Shankland, Robert, 220 

William, 221 
Sharp, John, 64 
Sharpas, William, 91 
Sharpe, Horatio, 21 
Shaw, Robert. 141 

Shearer, [ , Steuart], 41 

Sheed, George, 151 
Shepherd, Hercules, 233 
Shipley. E.. 159, 160 

Elizabeth, 157 

William, 158 
Shippen, Abigail [Gross or Grosse], 73, 
190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 241, 248 

Ann, 1S6 

Ann [Story], 194 

Ann or Anne [Willing], 73, 192, 193, 

194, 195, 240, 241, 247, 248, 249, 250, 
251, 252 

Anna Francina [Vanderspeyden, 

Hynson], 190, 194 
Anne, 187 

Anne [Harrison], 248 
Anne [Story], 191, 194 
Dorathe, 186 
Dorothy [Bubwith], 1S6 
Dr. Edward. 187 
Edward, 19, 20, 47, 72, 98, 119. I79, 180, 

186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193. 194, 

195, 240, 251 

Elizabeth, 190, 191, 192, I93, I94 
Elizabeth [Burd], 195 



INDEX 



2Zy 



Elizabeth [LybrandJ. i86, 187, 190. 
191, 194 

Esther t Wilcox, James], 186, 188, 189, 
190, 191, 194 

Frances, 190, 194 

Frances [ ], 186 

H., 194 

Jane [Galloway], 195 

John, 186, 187, 191, 193. 194 

Joseph, 7s, 190, 191, 192, 193. 194, 195, 
240, 241, 246, 248, 251 

Kitty [IVallen], 193 

Margaret IJckyll], 190. 194 

Mary, 190, 191, 194 

Mary [ ], 192 

Mary [Chapman], 186 

Mary [Francis], 195 

Mary [Gray, Noivland], 192 

Mary [Kearney], 192, 194 

Mary [Nunes], 186, 187 

Rebecca [Howard, Richardson], 186, 
187, 188, 191, 194 

Robert, 186, 187, 193, 194 

Rose [Budd, Phimlcy, McWilliams], 
190, 191, 192 

Sarah [Burd], 195 

Sarah [Plumley], 192, 194 

Susannah or Susan [Harrison], 193. 
194 

Rev. William, D.D., 194 

Dr. William, 126, 193 

William, 186, 187, 189, 190. 191. 192, 
194, 247, 251 
Shober, Samuel L., 169 

Shoemaker, Mrs. Samuel [ , Raivle], 

127, 128 

B.. 118 

Benjamin, 156, 228 

Elizabeth [Morris], 154, I55, IS6, IS7 

Henry, 167 

Isaac, 113 

Miriam Eccleston [Murray], 171 

Samuel, 127 
Shuk, Attwood, 239 
Shulze, Governor J. Andrew, 167 
Siddal, Ezekiel, 108 
Simcock, J., 177 

John, 105 
Simcoe, George, 137 
Simmons, Elizabeth [Guest], 76 
Simons, Madeleine [van IVyck], 215 
Simpcock, Jon., 235 
Sims, Mary [Willing], 240, 241 
Skan, John, 63 



Skelton, Abigail [Hudson], 103 
Skene, John, 65 
Slack, Elizabetli, 104 
Slaymaker, , 38 

Sarah Elizabeth [Peter], ^^ 
Smart, Captain William, 3. 4 
Smiter, Charles, 222 

Captain Edmond, 223 
Smith, Abby Willing I Johnson). 1O5 

Allen, 40 

Archibald, 221 

Columbia Jacqueline, 40 

Cornelia Lee [Stuart], 40 

H. W., 144, 147 

Captain Henry, 231, 233, 236 

Henry, 234 

James, 115 

John, 156, 158 

Laura Stuart, 40 

Margery [JVatson], 231, 233, 236 

Martha [Lou'le], 242 

Rebecca [Moore], 147 

Rosalie Eugenia. 40 

Samuel, 229 

Thomas, 242 

Thomas Sozinskey, M.D., 165 

Rev. William, D.D., 144, 147, 247 

William, 91, 92 
Smyth, Ella Calvert [ Campbell] . 45 

Hugh, 140 

J. Adger, 45 

John, 140 

Ross T., 140 

Sarah [Lyle], 140 
Snellincx, Claire [z'an den Cruycc], 212 
Sober, Charles, 49, 50 

Thomas, 239 
Solander, Dr., 124 
Somerset, Anne [Calvert], 17 

Hon. Edward, 17 
Sommerland, Alice [Bailies], i 
Southampton and Cleveland, Duke of, 18 
Southbe, William, 235 
Southebe, William. 100 
Southeren, Edward, 233 

Mary [ ]. 233 

Southworth. John. 105 
Spakeman, Randal, 181 
Sparks. James, Jr., 162 
Sparmann, Mr., 126 
Spence, . 45 

Charlotte Augusta [Calvert]. 45 
Spencer. John, 228 

Mrs. J. T.. 240 



m 



288 



INDEX 



Spielmann, Barbara, 118 

Jacob, 118 
Sprigg, Rebecca [Steuart], 32 
Spry, George, 98 

Joseph Hume, 98 
Squibb, William 98 
Stanwix, General, 192 
Stapler, Stephen, 181 
Stedman, Captain Charles, 245 
Steele, Charlotte [Cheston], 172, 173 

Elizabeth Frances [Steuart], 35, 42 

Henry Maynadier, 42 

Maria Lloyd [Key], 42 
Steer, Henry Joseph (See Stier) 
Steiner, Bernard C, 79 
Steuart, [ , Gould], 41 

[Leach], 41 

[ , Shearer], 41 



Alice Key [Montell], 42 

Ann [Digges], 30 

Ann [Hall], 35, 41 

Ann Fitzhugh [Biscoe], 30, 35 

Anne, 41 

Anne [Purcell], 41 

Benedict, 30, 34, 35 

Cecilius Calvert, 41 

Dr. Charles, 29, 30, 34, 35 

Charles, 41 

Charles Augustine, 34, 41 

Charles Calvert, 35, 42 

Charles Cecilius, 34, 41 

Charles J., 34 

Cora [ , Steuart], 34, 41 

David, 34 

Edward Calvert, 42 

Edward David, 41 

Edward Henry, 30, 34, 41 

Edward Henry Calvert, 34 

Eleanor [Bryan, Hincs], 34 

Eleanor [Watson, Compton], 41 

Eliza Ann, 34 

Eliza Ann [Hopkins], 34 

Eliza Thomas [Willcox], 34 

Elizabeth [Calvert], 28, 29, 30, 32, 34 

Elizabeth Frances [Steele], 35, 42 

Elizabeth J., 34 

Estep Hall, 42 

Dr. George, 22, 30, 32 

George, 30, 34 

George Biscoe, 35, 41, 42 

Dr. George Calvert, 41 

George Calvert, 30, 34 

George Hume, 42 

Hannah Margaret Maynadier [Mur- 



ray], 35, 42 

Captain Harry Augustus, 41 

Helen, 42 

Henry Darnall, 42 

Isabel [Murphy], 41 

Dr. James, 32 

James, 34 

James Henry, 41 

James Murray, 42 

Jeannette (See Virginia Francis) 

Louis Edward, 41 

Louisa [du Bignon], 41 

Louisa Ann [Darnall], 35, 42 

Maria Louisa [Bowling], 42 

Mary [Bosley], 41 

Mary [Hume], 30 

Mary [Willcox], 30, 34, 41 

Mary Cassin [Steuart], 34, 41 

Mary Rosalie [Green], 41 

Mary Stevenson [Purcell], 41 

Nannie [Kirby], 41 

Philip Eugene, 42 

Rebecca [Sprigg], 32 

Richard Estep, 41 

Richard Sprigg, 41 

Rosalie Eugenia [Calvert], 29 

Rose Ann, 42 

Sara H., 34 

Sarah Murray, 42 

Thomas, 34, 41 

Thomas Risteau, 41 

Virginia Francis, 42 

William, 28 

Dr. William Frederick, 35, 41 

William Frederick, 41 

William Henry, 34 
Stevens, Captain, 222 

Elizabeth, 158 
Stevenson, Margaret [Lyle], 141 

Mary [Hall], 41 
Stewart, David, 32 
Stier, Albert, 196, 211 

Albert Jean, 196, 204 

Catherine [Rysers], 196, 211 

Charles Jean, 197, 198, 199 

Cornelia (Cornelie) Nicolette [van 
Tetz], 196, 214 

Henri, 196, 214 

Henri Joseph, 31, 196, 197, 198, 199, 
207 

Isabelle Helene [de la Bistrate], 196, 
204 

Isabelle Marie [van Havre], 198, 199 



INDEX 



289 



Marie Louise [Peeters], 31, 196, 198, 
199, 207 

Rosalie Eugenia [Calvert], 29, 31, ;i2, 
48, 166, 170, 198, 199, 215 
Stirling, Dorothy [Willing], 245, 246, 247, 
248, 250, 251 

Sir Walter, 247, 250 
St. George, Sir Richard, 14 
Stockley, Benjamin, 228 

John, 234 
Stone, Elizabeth [Calvert], 15 

Frederick D., 69 

Governor William, 16 
Storm, Anne [Kuhn], 120 

Thomas, 120 
Story, Anne [Shippen], 191, 194 

Thomas, 189, 190, 191, 194, 245 
Stoubson, Thomas, 112 
Stow, Charles, 153 

Jane, 66 
Stowe, Thomas, 112 
Street, Ann, 48 
Stretch, Peter, 155 
Stringer, Samuel, 48 
Stuart, Ada [Randolph, Robb], 38 

Anne Calvert [Robinson], 30 

Ariana Calvert, 30 

Calvert, 38 

Caroline Calvert [Davis], 40 

Caroline Calvert [Holliday], 38 

Charles Calvert, 30, zz, 34. 40 

Cornelia Lee [Smith], 40 

Cornelia Lee [Turberville], 30, 2>i 

Dr. David, 29, 30, 32, 34 

Eleanor [Calvert, Ctistis], 27, 28, 29, 

30, 34 
Eleanor Custis, 30 
Ellen C. [Atkins], 34, 40 
George Calvert, 40 
Julia, 40 

Julia [Calvert], 32, 2>7, 40, 170 
Julia Calvert [Jones], Z7 
Margaret, 40 

Margaret [ ], 37 

Margaret [Hunter], 37, 45 

Marie Louise, 40 

Mary, 38 

Mary [Grymes], 40 

Mary C. [Post], 33 

Richard, 37, 38 

Dr. Richard Henry, 32, 37, 40 

Richard Henry, 40 

Rosalie Eugenia, 40 

Rosalie Eugenia [Magruder], 27 



Rosalie Eugenia [Stuart], 34, 3^, 40 

Rosalie Eugenia [Webster], 30, 34 

Sarah [Foote], 29 

Sarah [Waite], 30 

Sholto Turberville, 34, 37, 40 

William, 29 

William Sholto, 30 
Stupart, Captain Alexander, 245 
Sturgeon, William, 113 
Styler, Margaret, 60 
Sutton, Mary [Morris], 156 
Swann, Susan [Calvert], 35 
Swift, Joseph, 171 
Swope, , 121 

Eve [Kuhn], 121 
Sykes, Mr., 128 

R. W., 167 
Symington, Emily Kuhn [Harrison], 132 

Francis Fife, 132 

Louise, 132 

Stuart S., 132 

William Stuart, 132 

Talbot, George, 17 

Grace [Calvert], 10, 15, 16 

Rev. John, 136 

Sir Robert, 10, 15, 16 

Sir William, 17 
Tallet, William, 109 
Tasker, Benjamin, 20, 23, 24, 48 
Taylor, Abram, 93 

Christopher, 75, 235 

Colonel, 95 

Francis, 104 

John, 104 

Richard, 108 
Teackle, Major John, 6 

Susanna [Upshur, Scarborough], 6, 7 
Teagle (See Teackle) 
Teague, Pentacost, 76, 181 
Thatcher, Ann [Carrington], 49 

John, 49 
Thomas, Governor George, 80, 83 

Martha, 105 

Thomas, 156 
Thompson, Araminta [Carroll, Biscoc], 30, 

35 

George, 104 
Thomson, Margaret, 98 

Stee., 104 
Tidmarsh, William, 108 
Tilghman, Anna Maria [Lloyd], 216 

Deborah, 216 

Maria or Mary [Ward, Lillingston], 



290 



INDEX 



135, 137, 216, 217 

Marie or Mary IFoxley], 216, 217 
Matthew, 216 
Oswald, 216 
Dr. Richard. 216 
Richard. 135, 217 
Samuel, 216 

Thomas, 216 , 

William, 135, 216 
William M., 216 
Till, Ann [Warder], 219 

Cassandra [Lea], 218, 219 

Cassandra [Newton], 174, 218, 219 

Elizabeth, 151 

Elizabeth [Elder], 218, 219, 224 

Gertrude [Ross], 229 

John, 174, 218, 219 

Mary [Hamilton], 8, 58. 71, 79. 94, 95, 

96, 97, 139. 174- 217. 227, 229. 239 
Mary [Lillingston]. 71, 95, 96, 136, 

138, 139, 174, 216, 217, 219, 220, 227, 

229, 238, 239, 256 
Rosamond [Halloivell], 219 
Thomas, 220, 221, 222, 229 
William, 71, 79, 85, 93, 95. 136. 138. 

I39> 174. 216. 217, 218. 219, 220. 221. 

222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 

239 
Tittery, Joshua, 92 
Toads, John, 78 
Todd. John, 104 
Tomlingson. Mrs. Eliz., 218 
Tomlinson, John, 218 

Richard, 155 

Trenchard. [Upsher], 39 

Trent. Andrew, 78 

William, 189 
Tresse. Captain Hugh, 222, 224 

Thomas, 108. 181 
Trotter. Benjamin, 158 
Trumbull, Colonel, 80 
Tunberg, Mr., 126 

Turberville, Cornelia Lee [Stuart], 30, 33 
Turner, [Loide], 241. 242 

John, 66 

Joseph, 94, 96, 228 
Tutthill, James, 181 
Twining. Thomas, 69 
Tyrconnel, Earl of, 10, 16 



Upsher, Upshur 

[Trenchard], 



39 



Abel, 6, 39 
Abigail [Waters], 7 



Anne [Custis], 7 
Arthur, 6, 7 
Brown, 6 

Columbia [Williams], 39 
Custis, 39 

Elizabeth [Finney], 7 
George, 39 
Henry, 39 
John Henry, 39 
Kate [Httnt], 39 
Kate [Williams]. 39 
Rachel [Revell], 6 
Sarah [Bell], 6 
Sarah [Brown], 5, 6, 7 
Susanna [T cackle, Scarborough], 6, 7 
Thomas, 6 
Urquhart, Rev. D. H., 98 
Eliza [Hamilton], 98 

van Achterhaut. Petronille [van der 

Borcht], 213 
van Baerle, Elizabeth [Greyns], 204 
Vanbebber, John, 221 
Van Cortlandt, Ann [De Lancey]. 67 
van Couwenberghe, Anne [IValewyns], 215 
van den Cruyce. Balthazar, 212 

Claire [Snellincx], 212 

Dymphne [de Deckere], 203, 212, 213 

Frangois, 203, 212, 213 

Isabella Marie [van den Cruyce], 212. 
213 

Jeanne [Eelkins], 212 

Jeanne Catherine [Hellemans], 205. 

213 
Josse, 212 
Marie Mathilde [de Coninck], 202, 

213 
Mathilde Frangoise [Peelers], 207. 213 
Pascal Frangois, 205, 213 
Pascal Ignace, 212, 213 
Pascal Jean Augustin. 202, 213 
van den Graef. Anne (Marie) Goyvaert- 

sen [Peelers], 207, 213 
Anne (Marie) [Moens], 207. 213 
Govaert Geertssen, 213 
Jean Goyvaertsen, 207. 213 
Marie [van Sambeke], 213 
van der Borcht. Henri, 213 

Marie [van Eelen], 213, 214 
Petronille [van Achterhaut], 213 
Vanderspeyden, Anna Francina [Shippen. 

Hynson], 190, 194 
Anna Margaretta [Herman], 190 
Mathias, 190 



INDEX 



291 



van der Veken, Catherine IHelman], 205 
van Dueren, Elizabeth [Schildcr], 211, 212 
Vandyne, Rev. WilHam, 130 
van Eelen, Anne [van Eelen], 214 
Corneille, 214 
Jacques, 213, 214 
Jean, 214 

Laurence [Jongerycx], 214 
Marie [Losson], 214 
Marie [van der Borcht], 213, 214 
Marie Josephe [Peetcrs^, 207, 214 
van Havre, Jean Michel A. J. L., 197, 199 

Isabelle Marie [Stier], 198, 199 
van Nierop, Anne [Huyghe], 214 
Barthelemi Gerbrants, 214 
Mathilde Gerbrants [Schildcr], 112, 114 
van Noort, Adam, 208 
van Sanibeke, Marie [van den Graef], 213 
van Schorel, Brigite [Ryscr], 211 

Cornelia [van Tetc~\, 214 
van Solt, Catherine [Lunden'], 206 
van Tetz, Cornelia [van Schorel], 214 
Cornelie Nicolette [Stier], 196, 214 
Gerard, 214 
Guillaume, 214 
Sibesta [Daemen], 214 
van Valckenburg, Claire [Bosschaert'], 200 
van Veltwyck, Anne [Doncker], 204 
van Wyck, Barbe [de Brialmont], 201, 215 
Corneille, 200 
Cornells, 215 

Isabelle [Charle], 200, 215 
Jean. 215 

Madeleine [Simons], 215 
Vaughan, Sir William, 11 
Venius, Otto, 209 
Verhaeght, Tobias, 208 
Vernon, Admiral, 223 
Captain, 22 
Isaac, IDS, 109 

Lydia [ ], 105, 109 

Nehemiah, 105 
Rebecca, 109 
Thomas, 105, 109 
Verstegan, Richard, 13, I4 
Verulam, Earl of, 13 
Villiers, Barbara, 18 
Vincque, Anne Marie [Cheeus], 201, 215 
Catherine [Le Candele], 205, 215 
Charles, 201, 215 
Jean, 215 
Vining, Abram, 61 

John, 222 
Vivien, Helene [de la Bistrate'], 203 



Wade, Francis, 161 
Waistcoat, George, 113 
Waite, Jane [Hudson], 102 
Judge Obed, 30 
Sarah [Stuart], 30 
Thomas, 104 

Wake, [Lozi'le], 242 

Wakefield, Elizabeth [Bub'^'ith], 186 

John, 186 
Waker, Miss, 21 
Waldron, Captain Jacob, 145 
Walewyns, Anne [Macquereel], 206, 215 
Anne [van Couwenberghe], 215 
Jean, 215 
Walker, Isaac, 72 
James, 235, 237 
Mr., 125 

Wallen, , 193 

Kitty [Shippen], 193 
Waller, Thomas, 104 
Wallerius, Professor, 124 
Wain, Mary, Jr., 157 

Nicholas, 179 
Walpole, Sir Robert, 187 
Walters, Elizabeth, 93 
Walton. John, 235 
Ward, Mabel [Murphey], 216 
Margaret [Lloyd], 216. 219 
Maria or Mary [Tilghman, LiUings- 

ton], 135. ^Z7, 216, 217 
Matthew, 135, 216, 217 
Matthew Tilghman, 135, 136, 216, 217, 

219 
Townsend, 97 
Wardahl, William, 72 
Warder, Ann [Till], 219 
Jeremiah, 162 

Mary [ 1, 162 

Richard, 219 
Sarah [Morris], 162 
Wardour, Lord of (See Thomas .Xrundcl) 
Warner, John, 155 
Warre, Eleanor [Lylc], 141 
Washington, General George, 20. .v. ii, 

68, 84, 146, 167 
Martha [Dandridge. Custis\. 29- 3-' 
Waterland. Thomazine [Carringtonl. 40. 

51 

Waters, , 7 

Abigail [Upshur], 7 
Margaret [Prccson], (^ 
Rev. R. H., 169 
Colonel William, 6 



292 



INDEX 



Watkins, Ellen [Bubwith], 186 

John, 186 
Watson, Wattson 

Ann [ ], 220, 221 

Captain, 24 

Charles C, 102 

Eleanor [Steuart, Comptoji], 41 

Elizabeth, 231, 235 

Elizabeth [Frost, Gray], 71, 231 

Elizabeth [Lillingston], 71, 137, 138. 
217, 219, 238, 239 

Elizabeth [Morris], 149, 150, 151. 152, 
236 

Hannah, 159 

Isaac, 220, 221, 228, 231, 234, 235, 236, 
238 

Joanna, 71, 231, 233 

John, 41, 71, 138, 220, 233, 234, 235. 236 

John P., 84 

Luke, 71, 79, 137, 138, 149, 150, 220, 
221, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 
238, 239 

Margery [Smith], 231, 233, 236 

Mary, 236 

Mary [ ], 71, 138, 236 

Mary [ , Coddl, 220, 236, 238 

Richard, 254 

Samuel, 138, 234, 236, 238 

Sarah, 231, 236 

Sarah [ ], 71, 149, 220, 231, 236 

Sarah [ , Paynter], 231 

Susanna, 71, 231 
Watts, Robert, 146 
Wayes, Ann [Hudson], 103 

Webb, Elizabeth [ , Richardson], 175, 

181 

Robert, 175, 178 
Webster, Calvert Stuart, 34 

Fanny [Lynn], 34, 40 

Dr. Noah, 34 

Rebecca, 34 

Rebecca [Greenleaf], 34 

Rebecca Lynn, 41 

Rosalie Eugenia [Stuart], 30. 34 

Rosalie Eugenia Stuart [Magruder]. 
40 

Washington, 34 

William Eugene, 34, 40 

William Greenleaf, 30, 34 
Wehland, Hendrich, 168 
Weidman, Elizabeth, Mary Eliza, or Eliza 
[Morris], 163 

Jacob, 163 
Weisbcrt, Adam, 113 



Welch, Sarah, 105 

Wells, James, 2;^^ 

Wemyss, Earl of, 147 

Wentworth, Lord Viscount, 10, 12, 15, 16 

Sir Thomas, 10, 12, 16 
West, Benjamin, 85, 97, 252 
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth, 69 

Hannah, 112 

Hannah [Owen, Ogden], 107, 108, no 

Joseph, no, 158 

Rachel [Medcalf], 107, in 

Richard, 49 

Susanna [Medcalf], 107, in 

Rev. Thomas, D.D., 254 

Thomas, in, 155 

William, in 
Wheafiing, Henry, 113 
Wheatle, Robert, 95 
Wheeler, Josephine R. [Calvert], 36 
Whichcote, Lady Marianne [Beckett], 98. 
142 

Sir Thomas, 142 
White, A. Robinson, 43 

Alice, 43 

Annette Carter [Bier], 37 

Arthur, 37 

Esther, 158, 159 

John, 43 

Mary Louisa, 43 

Mary Louisa [Carter], 43 

Mildred, 43 

Rebecca, 43 

Bishop William, 36, 97, 98, 128, 129, 
131, 163, 250 
Whitehead, George, 175 

James, 153 

R., 114 
Whitridge, Alice Bowie, 43 

Helen Eccleston, 43 

Mary Oden [Bowie], 43 

Thomas, 43 
Whittle, Elizabeth, 104 
Whyke, H., 242 

Jane [Whyke], 242 

Nicholas, 242 

Prudence [Lowle], 242 
Whytons, William, 74 
Wiedemann, Eva [ ], 118 

Melchoir, 118 
Wilcox, Barnabas, 188 

Esther [James, Shippen], 186, 188. 189, 
190, 191, 194 

George, 92 

Joseph, 179 



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Sarah [ ], i88 

Wilhelm, Lewis W., A.B., 9 
Wilkins, Thomas, 112 
Wilkinson, Mary, 104 
Willcox, Eliza Thomas [Stetiart], 34 

Mary [Steuart], 30, 34, 41 
Willes, Mary, 76 
William, Charles, 153 
Williams, America Pinckney [Peter], 23, 
38, 39 

Columbia Wpsher], 39 

George Custis, 39 

Henry, 171 

Henry I., 168 

Isaac, 105, 109 

Jerdan, 112 

Kate [Upsher], 39 

Laurence, 39 

Lawrence, 221, 225 

Martha Custis [Carter], 39 

Mary, 105, 109 

Sarah [Law], 39 

Captain William George, 33, 38, 39 

William Orten, 39 
Willing, Abigail, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249. 
250, 251, 253 

Agnes, 240 

Ann, 240, 246, 247, 249 

Ann [Francis], 245, 246, 247, 248, 249. 
250, 251 

Ann [McCall], 247, 249, 250 

Ann [Morris], i, 54, 55, 66, 73, 77, 100, 
115, 162, 163. 165, 166, 169, 182, 195, 
250, 252, 253, 254 

Ann [Shippen], 73, 192, 193, 194, 195, 
240, 241, 247, 248, 249, 250. 251, 252 

Anne, 241 

Anne [Harrison], 240, 241, 248 

Ava [Lowle], 240, 241, 242 

Blanche, 241 

Charles, 50, 53. 54, 73, 163, 192, 193, 
194, 195, 240. 241, 243, 244, 245, 246, 
247, 248. 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254 

Dolly (See Dorothy) 

Dorothy, 241 

Dorothy H., 246 

Dorothy [Stirling], 245, 246, 247, 248, 
250, 251 

Edward S., 240 

Eleanor. 240 

Eliza Hannah [Carrington] (See Eliz- 
abeth Hannah) 

Elizabeth, 249 



Elizabeth Gibbes [Allcync], 250, 252, 

^53, 254 
Elizabeth [Plaver], 240 
Elizabeth [Poiccl]. 245. 246. 248 
Elizabeth Hannah [Carington], 50, 52, 

53. 54. 73, 163, 195, 247, 250, 252. 253. 

254 
George, 240, 249 
Henry, 250 

James, 241, 247, 248, 251, 253 
Joane, 240 
Sir John, 240 
John, 240 

Joseph, 240, 241, 248 
Margaret [Hare], 248, 249, 251 
Margaret [Kortright], 248, 249 
Martha, 241 
Mary, 240, 241 

Mary [ ], 240 

Mary [Burcomb], 240. 241 

Mary [Byrd], 245, 246, 247, 248. 250, 

251 

Mary Sims, 240, 241 

Mary [Sims], 241 

Michael, 240 

Philippa, 240 

Richard, 240, 241, 245, 246. 248, 249, 
251. 253 

Samuel, 241 

Simon. 240 

Susanna, 112 

Thomas, 240, 241. 245, 251. 253 

Thomas Mayne, 249 

Thomasine. 240 

William, 240 

William Shippen, 249 
Wills, Daniel, 63, 64 

John. 64, 112 
Wilson. Calvert, 36 

J. G.. 67 

John, 151, 155 

Marian Calvert, 24 

Marian Glorvina [Calvert], 36 

Mary [Beckett]. 142 

Thomas, 36 
Willbank, Halmanus (Sec Wiltbank) 
Wiltbank. Cornelius. 137. 138. 235 

Halmanus, 232, 233 

Jane [ 1, 235 

Winder, Mary [loltnsoti], 172 
Winne, Jonathan. 236 
Wistar, Rebecca [Morris], 162 
Wister, Casper, 151 



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INDEX 



Wood, George, 129 

John, 112 

Richard C. 115 

William, 235 
Woodcock, Anthony, 113 
Woodward, James, 60 
Woolford, Mary [Denwood], 57 

Rogers, 57 
Wrangel, Mr., 123 
Wright, Captain, 224 

E., 136 

S., 160 

Thomas Hynson, 219 
Wroth, Elizabeth [Mynne], 9 

Sir Thomas, 9 
Wyatt, Rev. Dr., 32 

Thomas, 135 
Wynne, Captain, 11 



Yard, Benjamin, 128 

Cornelius Kortright, 128 

Elizabeth [Kortright, Yard], 128 

Elizabeth Hester [Knhn], 128, 131, 132 

James, 128 

Samuel, 128 
Yarnall, Mordecai, 158 
Yeates, Jasper (Judge), 194 

Sarah [Burd], 195 
Yorke. Sir Philip, 84 
Young, Benjamin, 30 

Constantine, i 

George, 234, 235 

Peter, i 

Phebe [Baylis], i 

Robert, 19 

Zenger, John Peter, 78, 79, 83, 84, 87, 88, 

89, 90 
Ziegenhagen, Rev. Mr., 184 



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